Euronews's David Mouriquand has had it with "immersive exhibitions" — magnified replicas of paintings projected onto gallery walls. He says of the Van Gogh show he saw, "[It] made me want to forcibly shove fistfuls of sunflowers down my throat to make the experience end quicker," and describing the Klimt exhibition in Warsaw as "atrocious." Here's his no-holds-barred essay (read: rant) on the subject. What do you think of immersive exhibitions? Explain why in the comments.
I'm a multi-disciplinary designer out of work due to #LongCovid. Recently I have been visualizing and raising understanding of post-viral illness with my project ILLMARKS.
An employee of the Pinakothek der Moderne, one of Germany's largest and most prestigious contemporary art galleries, has been fired for hanging one of his own paintings in the space. The 51-year-old technical services team member also has to worry about a police investigation, as Munich authorities are investigating him for damage to property because of the two holes he drilled in a wall. Euronews has the full story. https://flip.it/.AD0l6
Artist Dani Gal has a collection of 700 spoken-word vinyl records that tell a partial history of the 20th century, from Gandhi and Goebbels to Golda Meir and Gamal Nasser. Ahead of a new exhibition at Vancouver's Polygon Gallery, he spoke to Montecristo's Peter Watts about what he's learned from these records, and the stories that aren't told.
Los Angeles has a new museum and its focus is on slime. The Sloomooo Institute will have 13,000 square feet of installations including vibrant slime waterfalls, a DIY slime bar, and a Nickelodeon-style sliming station. Perhaps best of all, this is the museum's fifth location, so you can be pretty sure that the promotional images aren't generated by AI. Thrillist has more details.
Happy Saturday! We're delighted to launch this year's hashtags. Have a look at the topics and share any archives you find that relate to the topics. We love to share what you find :)
Happy New Year from the Explore Your Archive team!
We are an Archives and Records Association (ARA UK & Ireland) platform set up to celebrate archives, records, and the people who use them.
We have monthly hashtags which we will share soon to inspire you to find archives to share, but in the meantime please tag us in any of your archive-related finds or stories - we'd love to share them.
A Monet is going on show in an art gallery in a paddock in the Tweed Valley of Northern NSW. This is courtesy of an initiative under the new national cultural policy to bring the collection of the National Gallery of Australia to people living jn regions throughout Australia #GLAMS#galleries#OzGlam
The world's most popular painter — at least, when it comes to TikTok followers — is Devon Rodriguez. He recently held his first solo show, Underground. Artnet's critic, Ben Davis, wrote what he thought was a fair review, but Rodriguez disagreed, leading to a pile-on from his fans. Here, Davis shares further thoughts about the nature of criticism, influencer art and "parasocial aesthetics." What do you think?
I finished another drawing last night but haven't photographed it. This is a collage of details of the last but one drawing. Realms #1 Ink & paint on watercolour paper. I'll show yesterday's drawing later. #lindasgoluppiart#drawing#art#arte#galleries#contemporarydrawing
Calling all people and institutions that work with archives!
This year's theme for "Explore Your Archive Week" is in the attached graphic. The campaign has really good engagement over on #X and we'd love to see the campaign to celebrate archives take off here on #Mastodon
Share your archives under the hashtags and we'll boost.