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Repository 146: Björk at MOMA | Biophilia and Art Fusion
Last week MOMA announced its first acquisition of an app, Björk’s app titled Biophilia, which is the same name of her album released in 2011. The app is a beautiful bundle of music, information and mini-games designed to explore the cross hairs/Venn circles and bridges between nature, science and music. MOMA also announced they will be having a retrospective of her 20-year career in the spring of 2015. The app was launched in sequence with school workshops and residencies, making…
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Repository 50: Art as a Guarantee of Sanity: LB’s Print Collection Online
“The Smell of Feet”, by Louis Bourgeois, courtesy of MOMA* MOMA just announced today the online catalog of Louis Bourgeois’s entire print collection, “The Complete Prints & Books”. This is a collection of over 3,500 works and includes previously unpublished works. The gargantuan task of uploading each print and properly cataloging is still ongoing. Out of 16 themes ranging from Spirals to Animals and Insects, there are only two which are ready for perusing – the Spiders and the Fabric…
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Repository 32: Consumption Junction: Artist Garage Sales, Store Windows, and Popups
On the eve of Martha Rosler’s Garage Sale at New York’s MOMA, I can’t help a brief question mark about the exhibit as garage sale, or exhibit as sale period. With respect to Ms. Rosler who has been having these out of context garage sales since 1973 at many locations including the Generali Foundation, Vienna (1999); the Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona (1999); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004); and The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2005), I question the impact of this…
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