My friend Reuben shot this video about five years ago in Liverpool, I just happened to find it after repairing an old broken hard drive. The dancing bear man was a Liverpool institution, and I hear he’s passed away, so the video is a bit sad. One commenter on YouTube said, “this is literally the [...]
I used to watch this series occasionally on PBS with my Dad when I was little and it made a weirdly huge impression on my little mind. Super excited that they’re online!
From the march 8, 1922 edition of the New York Times:
“Exhibitions that are mounted in Berlin always face enormous problems of transportation: not only must works of art be flown into the city, also critics and visitors from West Germany experience difficulty in reaching Berlin. The ‘Fernseh-Galerie’, serving as a fictitious exhibition space, will bring together information and opinions from various places concerning a particular [...]
“The transmission of art exhibitions by television is the beginning of an era when the public will be taught to appreciate great works of art, seeing them in their homes and at the same time that the finer points are demonstrated by an expert lecturer – in other words illustrated talks.” … “Animals, trick-cycling balancing [...]
Since the announcement of the Rose Museum’s closure, I’ve been thinking a lot about art collections, and how they are all really a story of the collector – whether it’s an institution or a person. When collections are disbanded, that story is lost, even if the works survive. Jennifer Teets pointed me towards Gustave Moreau: [...]
Social sculpture for frustrated holiday travelers: On a flight from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles in 1968, American artist Ed Kienholz (1927-1994) reluctantly checked-in an ornate, well packed Tiffany lamp and lampshade he and his wife, Lyn, had received as a gift. He had planned on carrying the items on board, but the airline insisted [...]