Now that I’m unemployed (awesome), I’m working on some side projects to keep me interested. I dunno where this is going, but maybe it’ll become a small pamphlet of artists I like or someting
Gorillas Don’t Blog is a blog I’ve been looking at for some time now. The person who operates the blog basically posts his vintage photos of Disneyland, which interest me not so much for their nostalgic quality, but the fact that I think Disneyland is a really bizarre place. I always found places like Disneyland and Las Vegas to be really weird, but it wasn’t until I learned about 19th Century Universal Expositions that I began to understand why. Their constructed reality is really interesting, and I think that some of the images that can be found on the blog showcase it really well. I think that it only becomes apparent that these images are from Disneyland when viewed as a whole. Individually, it only is obvious when you look at all the details.
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
People admiring Thomas Moran’s tranquil “View of Fairmont Waterworks, Philadelphia” (from about 1860) or Childe Hassam’s bucolic “Old House and Garden, East Hampton” (1917) in the show on American Impressionism at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta this summer might be surprised to learn the identity of the curator: Bank of America.
Keep reading this article at the New York Times. Very interesting… About the arguments for and against museums accepting to host exhibitions organized by curators from large banks. It reminds me a bit of the argument that exploded when the King Tut exhibition went to LACMA a few years ago.
