Happy New Year 2012!

Best wishes for the new year 2012, a year full of museums!

Urban farming as an exhibit in a museum: P.S. 1 NY

I am currently working on documenting a “green construction” of a building conceived as a work of art to be settled in the outdoor space of an art center (will post about it soon) and when doing some reasearch on the topic, I came across the exhibit named Public Farm 1 in P.S.1, that opened in mid 2008.

The concept designed by WORK Architecture was about : 

Public Farm 1 will function as an urban farm while providing an outdoor social space for the summer.  …..   P.F.1’s intent is to educate thousands of visitors on sustainable urban farming through the unique medium of contemporary architecture.

It looked an experiment between ecology, urbanism and architecture, but all based in a museum space.

Expo "Mehr Licht" by Chema Alvargonzalez, at Centro Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona

 "Mehr Licht", major retrospective exhibition by Chema Alvargonzalez, artist dead in Berlin in 2009.  At the Centro Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, the beautiful show is about the artist's light luggages and the association of words, images and the everimposing colored light.

Impactant display with the obscurity/light as the protagonist, but is easy to get used to read between the lighting sculptures and move around to look for clues to understand the artist's statement.

The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum launched

Just launched the Valentino Garavani archives and virtual museum!

The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum is an unprecedented digital fashion experience showcasing five decades of fashion history.

There is a quick start link at the botom of page with instructions of use and navigation, but to watch images you would have to download an application and then launch it.

After downloading the desktop application each visitor can create their unique route through the galleries, to discover and enjoy every aspect of Valentino's extraordinary world

It is an experience somehow between 3D, video game and virtuality, that tries to implement the visit with documentation and general information on the couture house, the personality of the designer/couturier and the work of the firm along the years.  Though in principel very interesting, I am not sure if the idea of "playing" with an external application would encourage visitors, but the concept is according with times and online living of many projects.  No news about the possibility of a physical museum to be soon a reality.

Here is the video at the Valentino youtube channel from the press conference for the official presentation in New York: "... Valentino is available to masses ....., welcome to future ......" Anne Hathaway, presenter of the event with participation of many personalities, among them was Amit Sood, creator of Google Art Project.

David Lister: "Art galleries should be like cinemas – open to audiences every night of the week"

A recurrent topic for discussion, a new perspective from David Lister

... Art galleries should be like cinemas, theatres and opera houses. They should open at the most socially convenient hours, nationwide.

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