Sunday, July 25, 2010

Sunday with the Arts

Yes, it's time for a little high brow and intelligent yet soul searching time with the arts.

The Guggenhiem Museum is wrapping up an exhibit that sounds extremely interesting in the multimedia field called 'Haunted'. Haunted according to the website is a:

"Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past. Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past."

Exceptional. Johnny hasn't been to the Guggenheim since the early 90's but will have to head uptown and see this.

As a bonus, here is the online exhibit.

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