I visited the Louvre DNP Museum Lab again this year to see their interactive installations developed around ‘The Slippers’ by the 17th Century Dutch painter Samuel van Hoogstraten. As in past exhibits, the show – which takes roughly one hour to see – focuses entirely on one piece of art on loan from the Louvre. […]
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house of roots
While visiting the picturesque city of Tainan (Taiwan) I was lucky to see the so-called Tainan Treehouse, a monument made from the ruins of the island’s first Dutch colonial trading port. What looks like a 17th Century warehouse has been completely overgrown with the island’s lush tropical vegetation, sinuous tree roots marrying themselves to the […]
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interfaces for museumgoers
While on vacation in France recently, I had the fortune to visit a few of the world’s leading museums, both in terms of the art displayed and the incredible quality of the exhibit design itself. Museums serve different roles for different people – as tourist destinations, research institution, and entertainment complexes. The spatial complexity of […]
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touch map 3
In addition to holding the best collection of indigenous art I have ever seen, Musee du Quai Branly in Paris has incredibly well-designed exhibit spaces. Galleries covering the arts of Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America flank a sinuous wall wrapped in leather that contains seats, nooks for watching videos and listening to sounds, as […]
darth vaderama
The Palais de Tokyo in Paris is officially my favorite museum in the world. I was recently treated to the awesome experience of Last Manoeuvres in the Dark by Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni: “Since 2007 Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni have shared an attraction towards community-based practice, bad taste and the different forms of […]
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free art
The works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres are unsettling in a number of ways: first, because you are encouraged to take a piece of the art on display (in these cases, at Art Institute of Chicago). It’s not common to touch, even less to take away artwork from a museum. Second, because the pile diminishes as you […]
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museum lab
yesterday i visited dai nippon printing’s exhibit in gotanda (tokyo) called louvre museum lab – a series of interactive installations built around titian’s madonna of the rabbit. the interfaces are big and beautiful, so even though most of the curatorial content in available on-line, experiencing the museum lab in person is completely necessary. one interface […]
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