先鋭的な表現手法で世界に批評的な視点をもたらす「現代美術」。その表現の深層には、必ずや人類学的、民俗学的な文脈が流れている。気鋭の民俗学者・畑中章宏が現代美術を読み解く不定期連載第5回は、国立新美術館で開催されている「ファッション イン ジャパン 1945-2020―流行と社会」。日本人が身に着けてきたものの流行風俗や社会との関係を膨大な資料とともに詳解する展覧会とその周辺から、「衣」と「身」の変容を「考古学的」に探索する。
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The Art, Science, and Mystery of Sleep
Sleep schedule all jacked up*? Stuck at home? Explore–virtually–the American Visionary Art Museum’s current exhibit, The Science and Mystery of Sleep (alt YT). What about the exhibition’s visual components?
“It is anchored by three handmade bedrooms…
The row between art galleries and donors is bigger than bringing home the Bacon | Oliver Basciano
As Tate faces potential legal action from a Francis Bacon donor, British galleries’ relationships with private collectors need more scrutinyWith squeezed budgets, British museums are increasingly relying on private patronage, for financial support and …
Summer of Soul
In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns [ungated link] – “Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival from Questlove.” (via) [1,2,3; fanfare] Sometimes these archival-footage documen…
Mechanisms at Play: The Audio-Kinetic Sculptures of George Rhoads
May I interest you in a moment of mechanical joy? George Rhoads, the man who designed delightful kinetic sculptures made of twists and turns and gears and track, died on July 9, 2021. His audio-kinetic ball machines can be found across the United State…
Man with a Movie Camera – Spectacular 1929 silent movie by Dziga Vertov
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. (SLYT) “It made explicit and poetic the astonishing gift the cinema made possible, of arranging what we see, ordering it, imposing a rhyt…
Delights of an Undirected Mind review – a hypersexualised hypnotic acid trip
Lisson Gallery, LondonCarnal claymation characters share exhibition space with lush silk paintings, shocking sculpture and a vast tapestry in which you are an exploding goatDelights of an Undirected Mind is a group show promisingly centring around drea…
animation work that’s difficult to match
Hey, here’s seven silent minutes of brief, clever stop-motion vignettes using wooden matches.
Making Photography in a Surveillance State
Last summer’s uprisings were likely the most photographed in history , with not only mainstream press in attendance, but near-every attendee equipped with their own networked camera, live-streaming and hashtagging the protests, creating layers upon lay…
Why Instagram’s creatives are angry about its move to video
The social media platform was once a favourite of artists and photographers, but a shift towards TikTok-type videos and shopping could leave them looking for a new home onlineIn late July, hobbyist photographer and self-proclaimed “sunrise hunter” Sam …