Professor Claudia Funk

Wrapped! In Search of the Perfect Mummy

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Haunted @The Guggenheim: March 26–September 6, 2010

From The Guggenheim's Website:

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. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Drawn primarily from the Guggenheim Museum collection, Haunted will feature recent acquisitions, many of which will be exhibited by the museum for the first time. Included in the show will be work by such artists as Marina Abramović, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Gregory Crewdson, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol. A significant part of the exhibition will be dedicated to work created since 2001 by younger artists. This exhibition is curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator.

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Mythic Creatures in NYC - Archived Online

Armoured Pegasus, by Joe Leonard
In Greek mythology, Pegasus was a winged horse, the son of Poseidon and Medusa. He sprang fully formed from Medusa's neck when she was beheaded by the hero Perseus. This sculpture was carved by Joe Leonard, a noted contemporary American woodcarver © Andrew Ressetti, on loan from Betty Jean Conant, from The American Museum of Natural History - click the museum's link to check out the highlights from this gorgeous show, and find out what's happening now. read more ...

Ideas for Your Consideration

"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
--TS Eliot, 1888-1965.

"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours." -- Salman Rushdie, b. 1947.

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." --Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969.

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance."
-- Aristotle, 384-322 BCE

"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
--Man Ray, 1890-1976.

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
-- Jean Piaget, 1896-1980

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