Museums
Museum Appetite 7: Video Installations and Reality Television
I have visited San Francisco three times since moving to Los Angeles; the first two trips were lost time in terms of museum-hopping, but last weekend I spent one day absolutely alone in a semi-familiar city. Naturally, I sought … Continue reading
Museum Appetite 6: Getting To Know You
Last weekend, I visited the Museum of Jurassic Technology again. I live only a few miles from the museum, and I absolutely love it, so I usually end up visiting once a month. My first visit lasted three … Continue reading
Museum Appetite 5: Going Inside
Every time I’ve visited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), I’ve wandered through the first floor of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum like a weird moth to a weird flame. The flame, in this case, is two … Continue reading
Museum Appetite 4: Doctor Who
In a recent episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor and his companion Amy Pond visited a museum. For on the un-geeky, Doctor Who is a British, time-travel sci-fi series in which a man called the Doctor travels through space … Continue reading
Museum Appetite 3: Context
Many specific museum exhibits have stayed with me, for either emotional reasons not relating to the art, emotional reasons relating to the art, or on the basis of the art itself. The last exhibit I really loved was called … Continue reading
Museum Appetite 2: The Mixed-Up Files
Six weeks ago, I spent the night in UCLA’s Hammer Museum during an event called the Dream-In, curated in conjunction with the Machine Project and artSpa. The Dream-In was an investigation of dreams and dreaming, held in conjunction with the … Continue reading
Museum Appetite
I lived in Los Angeles for nearly a year before I visited the Museum of Jurassic Technology. I went on a whim with two friends, and none of us had visited the museum before. We could not have … Continue reading