I love the focus on asking questions and holding them in your mind when experiencing art -- sometimes it's so hard get away from feeling like you need to "find" what you're "SUPPOSED" to feel/think about a piece. The questions are the thing, though. Unrelated: the bangs and glasses are ON POINT.
Great point. Once you can let go of the idea of "getting" the art, your experience can improve drastically. We talked in a past video about asking what the picture wants, and I like that take, too. So if the curator doesn't give you questions to consider, ask the art? And thanks for the kind words :)
Great video! I've been living in the New Orleans area for three months for an internship, and I'm just now getting to learn about the culture here. I'm glad I got to hear about some of the art. Thanks!
I also love the "you belong here" on the moving barge. It evokes for me the turmoil of the redevelopment of New Orleans, after Katrina hit. I think NOLA lost about half it's population after Katrina and while it's recovering, former residents of color have been half as likely to return as White former residents.
I spent a day exploring P.2 in 2011 (I went to school in Hattiesburg MS) and I still think about Lorraine O'Grady's work I saw in the African-American museum. My favorite part of P.2 was the unpretentious nature of it. I don't always feel the sense that exhibitions welcome all eyes, but with how engrained the project is with city, it certainly felt like it was for everyone. I got that same sense with the Open Walls Baltimore project, especially with how you can just stumble on a building or see it from I-95. Huge recommendation if you haven't heard of it.
I had an incredibly rewarding experience visiting Prospect.1, but I missed P.2. Wish I'd seen it. One of my favorite moments of P.1 was the William Kentridge installation at the African American Museum--a truly transformative art experience for me. And I'll definitely look into Open Walls in Baltimore--thanks for the heads up.
I liked that the "you belong here" sign was on a moving barge. Does that mean where you belong is always changing? Or does that mean wherever you are is where you belong, because each person will only see it as it passes their location? They aren't going to the place where the belong sign resides. It is coming to them. Thanks for sharing your trip.
Yes, excellent point. I think that the sign moves just adds to the indeterminacy of it all. Hopefully it doesn't mean you belong floating down the river strapped to a barge. Ha.
I sang a choral piece by Stephen Paulus in high school called "The Road Home" and one of the lyric lines is "There is no such beauty as where you belong." I thought of it as home for awhile, but only a few years ago saw it as us belonging to everything really. There is beauty belonging to stardust. These questions definitely help us look deeper and appreciate the diverse expression of all art.
I will have to visit New Orleans in the future! Love your advice on "don't go during the opening." I tell my friends this all the time but they still find out the hard way. So jealous you saw Shigeru Ban's work. He's one of my favourite architects!! And hope you like the Basquiat exhbition. We've having a big retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario that opens in a week. I'm super excited!
The Basquiat exhibition was excellent. It wasn't very big, though, so you will get the better experience at the AGO, I'm sure! Do you know where else that retrospective is traveling? And yes, you must visit New Orleans!
The Art Assignment According to the curator as of now it's a one-off show. But I hope it can become a travelling exhibition as this is the first Basquiat show in Canada of this scale.
I visited the Taipei Fine Art Museum this winter, and I felt much the same way about modern museum architecture, very cold and unfeeling. Yes, it's a blank canvas for the art to stand out, but…I wouldn't really enjoy it without the art. Thankfully, their interactive kids exhibit on Paul Klee was just a blast!
I think the "you belong here" sign can apply to more than just people in New Orleans, I think it could be for people of the whole world. Maybe you're having a really bad day and you just hate everything that day. Then you see a sign that says you belong in the world and I don't know, maybe you're day gets better because at least someone/something is trying to be nice to you.
I saw "Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me" at a small gallery in Chicago about a year ago (I really wish i could remember the name right now) and absolutely loved it. Completely mesmerizing! The optical illusion definitely confuses the brain for a bit!
Kailey deWeever Much delayed response, but: that was Rhona Hoffman Gallery! I saw it there, too. They represent Carrie Mae Weems' work, and that of lots of excellent other artists as well.
The Art Assignment YES! That was it! Such a beautiful gallery, Chicago is filled with so many! Going to West Loop to gallery hop is one of my favorite things to do in the city!
Very interesting. I've lived in Louisiana my whole life and I've never heard beignets called "fancy donuts." To each his (or her) own I guess! But in all seriousness I really enjoy the show. I'm not even close to an artist, but you featured my furniture project (the story of a wee stool as you called it) and your show helps introduce me to art that I normally wouldn't know anything about. Keep doing what you're doing!
Amazing video. I've been wanting to go to New Orleans this year but I wanted to do something outside of the usual drinking on bourbon street (which you awesomely pointed out:)). It's good to know there is something more out there. This video also really made me question the thought "Where do I belong"... which is something I have been struggling for the past year or so, and something I think many people go through. How long are those art installations going to be up? I would love to plan a trip and see that.
I live in New Orleans and saw the P3 signs a lot but never knew what it was. I might have gone had I known. They need better marketing... Loved the video!
You guys should visit Detroit! You can meet artists at The Scarab Club, there's the Heidelberg Project and other public artists and collectives, and the staff at College for Creative Studies are really talented, particularly Andrea Kowch, who was one of my teachers last semester.... although she took a break from teaching. She's still worth talking to! :) Have you been to the Detroit Institute of Arts? Its collections are fantastic.
Headed to New Orleans in March and am VERY disappointed I won't be able to catch this. Any other suggestions of artistic events/locations/exhibits to look out for? Much appreciated and thanks for this awesome video!
I for one dont disagree with them not allowing pictures to be take. Imagine if the only people to ever see a piece of art are the ones to see it in person. To me, that makes it more special. Its more unique. Who hasent seen a picture of the mona lisa ether on a poster in a class room or just by looking it up online? To me there is something more special unique and rare about not being able to see art except for in person. Last year on this very channel Sara did a vid con edition. Emily from the Brain Scoop did psychological portrait and towards the end she said she was going to tear it down and it could never be re built exactly as it once was. I loved that. Something there special and never to be seen again.
maybe i should just let the questions remain questions... but it's interesting to me that you made a video about the eclectic, (multiple voices of multiple sorts of narrative in multiple sorts of venues) and asked (twice... at least in a round about way) essentially which voices matter/belong (there) if John's right that there is no such thing as 'us and them' then every voice (should) matter and everyone (should) belong... because it's all part of one experience.
I think maybe the question is more of an introspective one, or at least that's how I first interpreted. Also, although we want to break down social barriers, we have to acknowledge that they do exist, in order to make progress.
How do you know when it's okay to photograph part of an exhibit? Do you ask first, or try to take pictures & ask if you can use them afterwards? Do you get special permission to photograph because of your position as a curator, or is everybody allowed to take pictures in museum? Love the show, it's always interesting & engaging :)
It's completely case by case, and yes you do need to ask. Often they will have signage posted somewhere to let you know. I could have gotten images by asking, I am sure, but in many cases anyone--curator or not--can take pictures (without flash). We talked about it a little bit in this video: ruclips.net/video/drrBd1bCiW0/видео.html, but it might be worth a whole video talking about copyright issues. And so glad you like the show! Thanks for watching.
I'll never understand why you can't take photos in museums. You want to have that as a memory that you were there just like any other historical place you visit.
It's mostly for conservation and/or copyright reasons. Camera flashes damage a lot of artworks, especially old pieces. When a museum displays art, they may not always own them. Often the works are from other museums or private collections. So when a museum doesn't allow photography at all - it's often because they don't want to get in trouble for copyright infringement of borrowed work. Although - many large museums I've visited in the last few years have found ways to workout agreements with their lenders and do in fact allow photography now.
"Art speak" is usually okay, as long as any jargon is explained or clearly used. Ideas can be really complicated to explain in words, so you've always got to be careful with the language!
I agree, David. I like reading art speak because I trained in it and understand it. And I appreciate when people stretch to use less familiar words to land on an appropriate descriptor for something. It's a tough balance--art writing--between engaging the reader with enough description, but not alienating them with too much or too little.
The Art Assignment I guess in many ways, it's about efficiency, about abbreviation--when you can define something complex with a simple term, you don't have to explain an entire history of ideas in every sentence! On the other hand, this makes the information more dense, meaning you have to spend more time absorbing the idea. That's why I really like video essays, such as Every Frame A Painting, or Thoughts From Places. It's info delivered fast, with tight logic, which makes you want to watch it repeatedly--and suddenly, you're contemplating an idea.
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I love the focus on asking questions and holding them in your mind when experiencing art -- sometimes it's so hard get away from feeling like you need to "find" what you're "SUPPOSED" to feel/think about a piece. The questions are the thing, though.
Unrelated: the bangs and glasses are ON POINT.
Great point. Once you can let go of the idea of "getting" the art, your experience can improve drastically. We talked in a past video about asking what the picture wants, and I like that take, too. So if the curator doesn't give you questions to consider, ask the art?
And thanks for the kind words :)
Great video! I've been living in the New Orleans area for three months for an internship, and I'm just now getting to learn about the culture here. I'm glad I got to hear about some of the art. Thanks!
Thanks! There is so much to see there. Even though Prospect.3 is over now, there are still a lot of great venues.
I also love the "you belong here" on the moving barge. It evokes for me the turmoil of the redevelopment of New Orleans, after Katrina hit. I think NOLA lost about half it's population after Katrina and while it's recovering, former residents of color have been half as likely to return as White former residents.
New Orleans is indeed a work of art in itself. These videos are great!
I spent a day exploring P.2 in 2011 (I went to school in Hattiesburg MS) and I still think about Lorraine O'Grady's work I saw in the African-American museum. My favorite part of P.2 was the unpretentious nature of it. I don't always feel the sense that exhibitions welcome all eyes, but with how engrained the project is with city, it certainly felt like it was for everyone.
I got that same sense with the Open Walls Baltimore project, especially with how you can just stumble on a building or see it from I-95. Huge recommendation if you haven't heard of it.
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I had an incredibly rewarding experience visiting Prospect.1, but I missed P.2. Wish I'd seen it. One of my favorite moments of P.1 was the William Kentridge installation at the African American Museum--a truly transformative art experience for me.
And I'll definitely look into Open Walls in Baltimore--thanks for the heads up.
I liked that the "you belong here" sign was on a moving barge. Does that mean where you belong is always changing? Or does that mean wherever you are is where you belong, because each person will only see it as it passes their location? They aren't going to the place where the belong sign resides. It is coming to them. Thanks for sharing your trip.
Yes, excellent point. I think that the sign moves just adds to the indeterminacy of it all. Hopefully it doesn't mean you belong floating down the river strapped to a barge. Ha.
I live here and it's so cool to see so much of the great art here celebrated in one video!
I sang a choral piece by Stephen Paulus in high school called "The Road Home" and one of the lyric lines is "There is no such beauty as where you belong." I thought of it as home for awhile, but only a few years ago saw it as us belonging to everything really. There is beauty belonging to stardust. These questions definitely help us look deeper and appreciate the diverse expression of all art.
Woo! More great art assignment episodes!
I will have to visit New Orleans in the future! Love your advice on "don't go during the opening." I tell my friends this all the time but they still find out the hard way.
So jealous you saw Shigeru Ban's work. He's one of my favourite architects!! And hope you like the Basquiat exhbition. We've having a big retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario that opens in a week. I'm super excited!
The Basquiat exhibition was excellent. It wasn't very big, though, so you will get the better experience at the AGO, I'm sure! Do you know where else that retrospective is traveling? And yes, you must visit New Orleans!
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According to the curator as of now it's a one-off show. But I hope it can become a travelling exhibition as this is the first Basquiat show in Canada of this scale.
I visited the Taipei Fine Art Museum this winter, and I felt much the same way about modern museum architecture, very cold and unfeeling. Yes, it's a blank canvas for the art to stand out, but…I wouldn't really enjoy it without the art. Thankfully, their interactive kids exhibit on Paul Klee was just a blast!
This reminds me on Niue Blanch, that has been happening for one night in October for at least 8 years now. I love these types of instillation events.
I think the "you belong here" sign can apply to more than just people in New Orleans, I think it could be for people of the whole world. Maybe you're having a really bad day and you just hate everything that day. Then you see a sign that says you belong in the world and I don't know, maybe you're day gets better because at least someone/something is trying to be nice to you.
the photos of the cardboard cathedral were taken by one of my tutors at art school, Cool seeing them here !
I saw "Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me" at a small gallery in Chicago about a year ago (I really wish i could remember the name right now) and absolutely loved it. Completely mesmerizing! The optical illusion definitely confuses the brain for a bit!
Kailey deWeever Much delayed response, but: that was Rhona Hoffman Gallery! I saw it there, too. They represent Carrie Mae Weems' work, and that of lots of excellent other artists as well.
The Art Assignment YES! That was it! Such a beautiful gallery, Chicago is filled with so many! Going to West Loop to gallery hop is one of my favorite things to do in the city!
Very interesting. I've lived in Louisiana my whole life and I've never heard beignets called "fancy donuts." To each his (or her) own I guess! But in all seriousness I really enjoy the show. I'm not even close to an artist, but you featured my furniture project (the story of a wee stool as you called it) and your show helps introduce me to art that I normally wouldn't know anything about. Keep doing what you're doing!
Amazing video. I've been wanting to go to New Orleans this year but I wanted to do something outside of the usual drinking on bourbon street (which you awesomely pointed out:)). It's good to know there is something more out there. This video also really made me question the thought "Where do I belong"... which is something I have been struggling for the past year or so, and something I think many people go through. How long are those art installations going to be up? I would love to plan a trip and see that.
I live in New Orleans and saw the P3 signs a lot but never knew what it was. I might have gone had I known. They need better marketing... Loved the video!
You guys should visit Detroit! You can meet artists at The Scarab Club, there's the Heidelberg Project and other public artists and collectives, and the staff at College for Creative Studies are really talented, particularly Andrea Kowch, who was one of my teachers last semester.... although she took a break from teaching. She's still worth talking to! :) Have you been to the Detroit Institute of Arts? Its collections are fantastic.
Headed to New Orleans in March and am VERY disappointed I won't be able to catch this. Any other suggestions of artistic events/locations/exhibits to look out for? Much appreciated and thanks for this awesome video!
I for one dont disagree with them not allowing pictures to be take.
Imagine if the only people to ever see a piece of art are the ones to see it in person. To me, that makes it more special. Its more unique. Who hasent seen a picture of the mona lisa ether on a poster in a class room or just by looking it up online?
To me there is something more special unique and rare about not being able to see art except for in person. Last year on this very channel Sara did a vid con edition. Emily from the Brain Scoop did psychological portrait and towards the end she said she was going to tear it down and it could never be re built exactly as it once was. I loved that. Something there special and never to be seen again.
maybe i should just let the questions remain questions... but it's interesting to me that you made a video about the eclectic, (multiple voices of multiple sorts of narrative in multiple sorts of venues) and asked (twice... at least in a round about way) essentially which voices matter/belong (there)
if John's right that there is no such thing as 'us and them' then every voice (should) matter and everyone (should) belong... because it's all part of one experience.
I think maybe the question is more of an introspective one, or at least that's how I first interpreted. Also, although we want to break down social barriers, we have to acknowledge that they do exist, in order to make progress.
Oh I've always wanted to go to New Orleans! Maybe someday. :)
Really irrelevant question, but what kind of camera does your crew use, Sarah?
This makes me wish I'd found a visual medium I can work in.
You still can :) Maybe your niche is something unconventional!
How do you know when it's okay to photograph part of an exhibit? Do you ask first, or try to take pictures & ask if you can use them afterwards? Do you get special permission to photograph because of your position as a curator, or is everybody allowed to take pictures in museum?
Love the show, it's always interesting & engaging :)
It's completely case by case, and yes you do need to ask. Often they will have signage posted somewhere to let you know. I could have gotten images by asking, I am sure, but in many cases anyone--curator or not--can take pictures (without flash). We talked about it a little bit in this video: ruclips.net/video/drrBd1bCiW0/видео.html, but it might be worth a whole video talking about copyright issues.
And so glad you like the show! Thanks for watching.
When all else fails, take a sketchbook! :)
What if the sign was personifying the river and the river was saying you belong here?
I'll never understand why you can't take photos in museums. You want to have that as a memory that you were there just like any other historical place you visit.
It's mostly for conservation and/or copyright reasons. Camera flashes damage a lot of artworks, especially old pieces. When a museum displays art, they may not always own them. Often the works are from other museums or private collections. So when a museum doesn't allow photography at all - it's often because they don't want to get in trouble for copyright infringement of borrowed work. Although - many large museums I've visited in the last few years have found ways to workout agreements with their lenders and do in fact allow photography now.
ARTiculations Oh okay, didn't know that. Thanks for informing me!
ARTiculations Thankfully, you're always allowed to make sketches of what you see in the gallery! More work, but more memorable in a way.
"Art speak" is usually okay, as long as any jargon is explained or clearly used. Ideas can be really complicated to explain in words, so you've always got to be careful with the language!
I agree, David. I like reading art speak because I trained in it and understand it. And I appreciate when people stretch to use less familiar words to land on an appropriate descriptor for something. It's a tough balance--art writing--between engaging the reader with enough description, but not alienating them with too much or too little.
The Art Assignment I guess in many ways, it's about efficiency, about abbreviation--when you can define something complex with a simple term, you don't have to explain an entire history of ideas in every sentence! On the other hand, this makes the information more dense, meaning you have to spend more time absorbing the idea. That's why I really like video essays, such as Every Frame A Painting, or Thoughts From Places. It's info delivered fast, with tight logic, which makes you want to watch it repeatedly--and suddenly, you're contemplating an idea.
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Is cermet going to an grow?
and she did not take a breath during the video