The Art Museum of the Americas is holding an “Art after Dark” event on May 24. I’ve never been myself but I would imagine its probably something like the Night at the Museum movie minus the creepy t-rex and about a million times cooler.
There will be art, live music, and an open bar! Just look at the awesome lineup:
MUSIC
DJ Mauricio Parra (courtesy of MTV Latin America)
Banda Magda (NYC)
ART
Antón Cabaleiro
Juanma Carillo
Nicky Enright
Felix Fernandez
Linda Hesh
Philip Hodges
Seo Jo
Carolina Mayorga
Bruce McKaig
Elena Patio
Tickets start at $40 and the event is known to sold out. So just in case you’re broke, we got you covered! We have one pair of VIP tickets to giveaway!
All you have to do is leave a comment telling us what your most/least favorite art display or exhibit is.
Okay, I’ll go first. My favorite display was this 15 minute video of trash blowing in the wind which I saw at the Tate Modern in London. I know, I know. Extremely deep right?
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Hands down, the best exhibit I saw was the renaissance and contemporary art of the Villa Borghese Museum in Rome. The highlight is seeing Bernini’s sculpture of Daphne fleeing from Apollo, and turning into a tree. It’s said that the leaves hum when rubbed like you would a wine glass. Also to get the animation of the statue, you need to walk around the statue clockwise starting from the backside. You can se her changing from tree form to human.
My most favorite museum exhibit is the entrance to the Holocaust Museum where they give you your passport. That’s powerful stuff.
I like David Amoroso from Falls Church, Virginia. Amazing paintings.
I was 15 on a school field trip to the Hirshhorn where there was an exhibit by Felix Gonzalez-Torres…piles of silver foil-wrapped candy, stacks of white paper with lines of text reading either “Somewhere Better Than This Place” or “Nowhere Better Than This Place,” and visitors were invited to take however much they wanted of any of it. Left with a handful of candy, two rolled up sheets of paper, and finally feeling like art wasn’t something separate or outside me – that, as the viewer, I’m a part of it.
Has to be the Gamer Exhibit: The Art of Video games still going on at the American Art Museum. Not only have opportunities to create your own pixel art and Mario Bros – like photos, but they had live games to play. What more could you ask for?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpclients/6997192985/in/photostream/
Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is the first video installation that really resonated with me. I credit that piece with helping me discover the artistry of multimedia/video works.
My dad has a whole bunch of his old paintings and sculptures in a room in the basement. Does that count? It’s my favorite.
Most favorite art is Wayne Thiebaud’s “Girl with an Ice Cream Cone.”
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/thiebaud/thiebaud_cone.jpg.html
still a sucker for all of the nam june paik in the national gallery. he was way ahead of the curve.
The Dali Museum in S.t Petersburg, FL, and getting to see the Hallucinogenic Toreador. IT’S HUUUUUUUGEEEEE.
My favorite show in recent years was the 30 Americans exhibit at the Corcoran. Kehinde Wiley’s works blew my mind.
My fave exhibit was a Tim Burton retrospective at MOMA, a look into the freaky, fantastic worlds he creates for, before, and beyond his movies. Genius and madman, it was disturbing and inspiring–his vision was so outside of normal but he kept at it and became a big success
My favorite exhibit was the MOMA TIm Burton retrospective. Fantastic, disturbing, inspiring–from long before and beyond costumes and pieces from his major movies, it followed his lifetime of commitment to his artistic vision and how, despite it being so freakishly out of the ordinary, he was able to find success in bringing that vision to life.
Going to the Palace of Verailles in Paris when I was 17 years old, while on a soccer tournament of all things. While I also was fortunate enough to visit the Louvre, Versailles was like walking through one gigantic piece of art. The gardens, the hallways, the artifacts, the paintings. It fascinated me and grabbed my attention. It was a defining moment for me and my appreciation for art.
Van Gogh exhibit at the MOMA a few years back…walking through the exhibit I felt like I got a feel for the artist’s life and that he did work similar to Starry Night that is even more beautiful than his most well-known piece.
I loved the American Woman exhibit and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute 2 years ago. Fascinating look at the evolution of women fashions in America. The looks were stunning!
the best was the Warhol exhibit at the NGA this winter! such an interesting collection of early pieces that aren’t normally shown – you got a different idea of how he got started, not just campbell’s soup.
The Dali museum in Figueres holds precious gifts to creative minds, including my favorite installation of all times, “Face of Mae West Which Can Be Used as an Apartment.”
Here, Dali took me inside of Mae West. Literally, the walls of the two bulging eyes screamed at me to come inside. As I walked through the doorway of sculpted blond hair and gold earrings -closer and closer to the big red lips, nose and wall…I felt her watching and digging me in deeper and deeper. Viewed from any and many angles- telescope or not- truly, amazing.
XOXO,
Jasmine, “The Winner”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7mZuh3ewg
I know this is exceptionally cliche, but when I was a kid, my parents dragged me kicking and screaming (I don’t think literally) to the Van Gogh exhibit at the LA County Museum of Art. There were tents and lines and the oppressive heat (by Southern California standards). By the end, I had completely changed my opinion of art, painting, and appreciation. To this day I still tell people that’s the moment I realized I could never be a real artist, but I would have liked to be.
My favorite art show? Hope Gangloff: http://flavorwire.com/45178/before-and-after-with-new-york-artist-hope-gangloff
Sol LeWitt has this fantastic exhibit at MASS MoCa where you walk through this huge old warehouse with nearly an acre of his stuff displayed – they show you how he really democratized his art.
In 2004, I saw a marvelous light installation at the Tate Modern. It was a massive, glorious, warm orange sun rising from the mist. Aside from the sheer stunning power of walking in and seeing the light bathe the entire gallery, it was seeing the crowd taking it in that was really fun – some were “sun”bathing, others just standing and marveling. Fantastic.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/unilever-series-olafur-eliasson-weather-project/olafur-eliasson-weather-project
Guernica. It’s a huge painting. You walk into the Reina Sofia and after exploring the labyrinth that the museum is, you almost stumble onto this massive, life-altering work. You know when a record screeches to a halt? It’s almost like that. I stare at it, shocked, in awe, and definitely moved. Guernica, one of the few reasons to go to Madrid in August.
saw the Gauguin exhibit at the Seattle art museum a few months ago. so rad- it explored his time in Polynesia and captured the spirit of his fascination with the local cuture.
One of my favorites is definitely Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seed exhibit at the Tate. Really incredible.
My favorite show was seeing all the amazing works from the Picasso museum in Paris when they came to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Seeing so much work in one space was awesome and being able to see the full spectrum of his works and witness his development as an artist was amazing!
About a year or two ago, the Hirshhorn had an exhibit on Andy Warhol.
That was my least favorite exhibit.
Let the hipster/Instagram-lovin’ kids hate me, it’s all good.
Song1 was my fav, it’s just beautiful.
I’m a big fan of this lady’s butter dance: http://www.lightweightfunny.com/tag/lady-stepping-on-butter/
Favorite of all time – anyone who features a Degas exhibit (looking at you, Phillips Collection!). To be frank, my least favorite was the Warhol at Hirshhorn. Boring and full of tourist families with obnoxious children playing on their phones WITH SOUND.
As a proud Argentinian, I have to say Marta Minujin’s Tower of Babel constructed with 30.000 books. She is famous for her happenings and anti-monuments.
Plus, did you know she was really good friends with Warhol? SOLD.
http://www.printeresting.org/2011/05/30/marta-minujins-tower-of-books/
The most exciting, beautiful, weird, creative, I thought I was high, exhibit was the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibit in NYC last year. HANDS DOWN was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life!
“The Awakening”, back when it was at Haines Point. I’d be hard-pressed to think of another sculpture ever that fit its site so well and defined the site by its presence.