• YOu like catz so do museums
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On my adventures today, i ended up visiting the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History here in the Pittsburgh area. Was only there for about 40 min or so because that was all the time my friend had to go in there before she had to go to school, plus it only cost us a dollar each to get in with her food stamps card, God bless America. It normally costs about $20 for each person to get in. I really would just like to hear some opinions of how this can come to be an exhibit at a museum. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrwBQ5O9QQ[/media]
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i dont get why people go to the museum and then throw a fit over installation art. like you've just walked through a hallway with pollocks and and kandinsky and gradually come to more and more conceptual and minimalistic and then self-referential and then finally self-mocking pieces and then suddenly get to the installation art and act like you've been cheated, i dont get it. people treat museums and art like it's supposed to be purely visual pornography and its just not. they include stuff like this all the time just for that reason, just to get the public to think about it all for a sec, to think about the fact that you just walked through the ~Tate Gallery of French Renaissance Proto-Realism~ for 15 minutes as if you cared. instead people get mad. it's not trying to be that pretentious. it's okay to laugh at it.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;47313373]i dont get why people go to the museum and then throw a fit over installation art. like you've just walked through a hallway with pollocks and and kandinsky and gradually come to more and more conceptual and minimalistic and then self-referential and then finally self-mocking pieces and then suddenly get to the installation art and act like you've been cheated, i dont get it. people treat museums and art like it's supposed to be purely visual pornography and its just not. they include stuff like this all the time just for that reason, just to get the public to think about it all for a sec, to think about the fact that you just walked through the ~Tate Gallery of French Renaissance Proto-Realism~ for 15 minutes as if you cared. instead people get mad. it's not trying to be that pretentious. it's okay to laugh at it.[/QUOTE] i would be accepting of it only if this crap wasn't just randomly placed through out. like for instance, abstract metal art is art, but puting a dirty couch cushion leaned against the wall next to an inner tube hanging from the ceiling with pantyhose hanging from it and you have these highly detailed paintings and cool sculptures and right next to it. its like having an art exhibition for paintings of the like of vincet vangoh or however you spell it and hanging a used condom on the wall saying yeah this is his famous great allegheny white water fish.
honestly you're not getting anything out of a museum if you think a masterwork is actually being placed on even footing with a set of TVs plugged into the wall and the curators know that and want you to think about it, it's really that simple: all art has a contextual value that distorts the way its viewed
We went to DC a few years back, there was a room with a display of TVs near the entrance to the video game exhibit. They had them synced to where they would make flags and things, well the televisions also had pornography on them. One of the clips was a woman with a cat near her hooha.
[QUOTE=Wolfgirl1515;47314913]We went to DC a few years back, there was a room with a display of TVs near the entrance to the video game exhibit. They had them synced to where they would make flags and things, well the televisions also had pornography on them. One of the clips was a woman with a cat near her hooha.[/QUOTE] Can you tell me more about the hooha?
The more cat videos in art museums, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm honestly more disappointed that they didn't have any more cat exhibits.
'art' sucks
[QUOTE=Slim Charles;47320064]'art' sucks[/QUOTE] it does, I went in expecting to get to see all the dinosaurs and natural history shit, and we ended up getting suckered into walking into the lame art portion that's got random art and not art art stuff with bland white walls all around you. You pay to go in and they don't even tell you "by the way sir art is that way and natural history is that way" instead you get your yellow card on a string indicating you paid and your left staring ahead at the set of stairs, so you pretty much assume I guess that's where you go. we went up the stairs turn the corner and instead of art or dinosaurs elevators no signs that this was taking to the art section. we take the elevator up and it takes us to a room that has a set of doors that lead to a whole giant closed off section of the museum they had it blocked off by red metal barriers. Your only option is to turn the corner which leads you into the art section and it just has you running in circles and getting lost, I just wanted to see the dinosaurs.
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