scholarly journals Kontroversiel kuratering. Refleksioner over Thomas Hirschhorns Bataille Monument

1970 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Sabine Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Democratic Societies

Based on artist Thomas Hirschhorn’s installation entitled Bataille Monument, the article discusses how controversial works of art situated outside the art museum can address local communities as fragmented and conflicted communities. It is argued that public spaces should be perceived as zones where potentially different and contradictory social, ethnic, economic and cultural participatory positions can interact, calling for an active negotiation process. Based on theoretical reflections on so-called radical democracy, it is argued that democratic societies and their museum institutions could benefit from focusing on contemporary conflictual and debatable issues.

scholarly journals Collecting Pandemic Phenomena: Reflections on Rapid Response Collecting and the Art Museum

Collections ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155019062098084
Author(s):  
Sandro Debono
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Potential Use

Rapid Response Collecting has been a most apt methodology with which to document the COVID-19 pandemic for an increasing number of museums. As the phenomenon unfolded across the globe, museums searched for and head-hunted the truth-revealing objects that could tell the stories and histories of the present to current and future generations. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic took Rapid Response Collecting to a higher level. A methodology originally conceived for a sporadic phenomenon happening within a specific context during the early years of the 21st century gained much more traction almost overnight. This paper shall make a case for a better understanding of the potential use and application of Rapid Response Collecting by art museums. It shall look into the defining values of this collections development methodology and how these can be applied and adopted when acquiring works of art. In doing so, it shall seek to understand to what extent the mainstream version of Rapid Response Collecting can be adapted for the needs, purposes and requirements of the art museum.

scholarly journals TRANSLATING TEXTS ON ART (ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM MUSEUM TEXTS IN RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND FINNISH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
I. P. Ryabkova ◽  
A. A. Deryugina
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
Formal Business

The article studies the ways of rendering stylistic and lexical features of museum texts in the Russian, English and Finnish languages in translations. Research in the field of translation of museum texts seems important in view of the growing popularity of museums and the increased number of international visitors who have to refer to translated texts. The study uses the texts of Kiasma and the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), Helsinki, as well as the texts of the Museum and Exhibition Complex of Small Arms named after M. T. Kalashnikov, Izhevsk. The source languages ​​(SL) of the analyzed texts were Russian and Finnish, the target languages ​​(TL) were Russian and English. The objective of this research was to study the peculiarities of translating museum texts. In the course of the study, a linguistic analysis of texts in the SL was carried out. It was found that museum texts feature a combination of different functional styles. In addition to publicist and scientific styles, museum texts can have some features of fiction, formal business and colloquial functional styles. The study showed a link between the type of the museum text or the nature of the museum and the functional style of the text. In the course of a comparative and translation analysis of texts in the SL and the TL, the main stylistic and lexical problems of translating museum texts were identified, and optimal translation solutions for conveying the stylistic and lexical features of museum texts were described. It was found that lexical translation problems were most often associated with idioms and the vocabulary lacking equivalents in the TL, as well as the dependence of texts on the visual component of works of art. Stylistic problems, in turn, were due to the need to preserve the functional and stylistic characteristics of the original.

Splashing Ink on Museum Walls: How Comic Art Is Conquering Galleries, Museums, and Public Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-307
Author(s):  
Rob Salkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
Book Of Genesis ◽  
Museum Exhibition

In this 2018 essay, Forbes cultural journalist Rob Salkowitz explains how exhibitions contribute to the valuation of an artist’s work while recognizing exhibitions of comic art as landmarks on comics’ long march to cultural legitimacy. Salkowitz begins his essay by sharing his memories of the 2016 Seattle Art Museum exhibition Graphic Masters, which was centered around The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis. This chapter discusses the evolution of exhibitions since 1990, how exhibitions have enhanced the valuation of original comics drawings, challenges for commercial galleries and dealers, and curatorial strategies.

Aesthetic Dynamics, Inc. Presents: Afro-American Images 1971

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-204
Author(s):  
Margaret Winslow
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Archival Record

Abstract In February 1971, the artist collective Aesthetic Dynamics, Inc. presented its first major undertaking: an exhibition of over 130 works of art by 66 artists. Organized as a memorial to the late James A. Porter, Afro-American Images 1971 was presented at the National Guard Armory in Wilmington, Delaware. Many of the artists who participated in the show were well-established nationally; however, the location and inclusion of many artists known only to the local community resulted in the marginalization of this significant exhibition. In 2021, the Delaware Art Museum will restage the exhibition as a collaborative curatorial partnership with past and currents members of Aesthetic Dynamics, Inc. in an effort to counter this historical amnesia. Restaging as a curatorial methodology is a constructive means through which to aid in the recovery of the 1971 project, its archival record and its significance locally and nationally.

scholarly journals Compositional situation: analysis of the location of two sculptures in Mexico City

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Leszek Maluga
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Spatial Systems ◽  
The Subject

The study consists of two parts. In the first one, the author outlines a methodological concept of researching the quality of compositional and artistic spatial systems that are created, for example, in the urban environment with the participation of, inter alia, architectural objects and works of art. The subject of this type of research was called a ‘compositional situation’. In the second part, the author uses the proposed research method to analyze specific cases. These are two situations existing in the public spaces of Mexico City, in which sculptures of famous Mexican sculptor Sebastian were located.

scholarly journals Om strandvandringer og annen unyttig eksersis

1970 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Birthe Marie Løveid
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Museum Objects ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
Store Room

About shore-walks and other idle amusements The author, who is a sculptor and the leader of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway, looks at the art museum with mixed feelings. The works of art which have attained the status of museum objects have been salvaged from the relentless flow of time. But, alas, many of them are doomed to the store-room or cellar. 

scholarly journals Collective actions for reconfiguration of urban space Biały Bór, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Sergiy Ilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
World War ◽  
Complete Replacement ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Biały Bór is located in the former German territories that came to Poland after the Second World War. The almost complete replacement of the indigenous German and Jewish populations, initially by Polish and soon Ukrainian communities, was the result of the displacement of state borders by the eviction and relocation of millions of people. To do this, the authorities used certain strategies, which brought different approaches and constraints to local communities and urban spaces. The article considers the differences between the declared principles and the actual actions of the authorities in the context of “small stories” of all actors (national communities), as well as the tactics of indirect resistance of the local community to government pressure. Due to the remoteness of the place from the state center and due to its unanimity, the local community becomes the driving force of the spatial development of the city. And since the city is multicultural, the development of public spaces is influenced by the competitiveness (not confrontation) of two local communities. Therefore, the creation of public spaces is considered in the context of the rights of different groups to the city. This paper argues the conditions under which it is the collective actions of local communities that determine the change in the configuration of urban space.

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