MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
All in Art
One thing just led to another. I started photography when I was very young, like at 15 or something. A friend told me she was doing a workshop every Wednesday afternoon, and she asked, "Do you want to do it with me?" So that's really how it started.
Did you know, before I met you, I had never once snuck out of my house? I would pair each sock with its match and brush my teeth before bed, hoping to dream about tiptoeing through the tulips.
In the corner of my eye, the light glints
off your lacquered nails, red for luck,
matching your pepper-red dress
dusty-red shoes
fire-red soul.
She couldn’t believe it was time to leave already. That was her place. She raised her gaze. There it was. That tree. Still standing there, a hero becoming aware that the war has been lost but trying to fight that last battle anyway. Memories rushed before her eyes, too fast to focus on anything specific.
There is beauty in diversity, in difference, and in the merging of disparate identities. In the world of art, this beauty is realized through collage.
From more lawsuit scandals to the death of the man behind the “Pictures Generation,” this is all you need to know about the ins and outs of the art world from this week.
Light enables all vision, sometimes the visions of photographic masterminds. Whether soft or harsh, natural or artificial, diffused or dramatic, the lighting of a photograph can be what makes it.
From Nan Goldin’s protest at the Louvre to Hasselblad’s new camera, this is all you need to know about the ins and outs of the artworld from this week.
In every photograph, a moment is captured—a moment of surprise, serenity, or sometimes, superb athleticism. In Henry Leutwyler’s photographs of Misty Copeland, he captures the lean muscles and graceful dexterity of the esteemed ballerina in motion and in stillness.
Mathias: Incorporating choreography is a way to make the installations change from a static to an organic form. When the dancers are not there, the audience members become the sole organic creatures in the installation, and at that moment, you could call them dancers.
Pedro Almodóvar: The point where you’re grappling with all these elements is the point when you’re closest to the abyss. You’re doing all this and it’s very uncertain because you don’t know where the edge of the abyss will take you
Bella Luca: The inspiration would be what is going on in our culture today. In my view, no matter what color, gender, race or what shape or size you are, you’re welcome. Equality matters.
Signe Pierce: There’s something scary because you see this robot woman who is commanding her own identity, but she’s in this sexy feminine form that we associate with hyper-sexualized woman all the time on TV, in porn.
Elisabeth Biondi: Back in the 70s or 80s, you didn't have that much of a variety. And now, because you can appropriate pictures and you can do whatever you want to do with the photographs — that is just amazing.
Nathaniel: Art has always been associated with money, but not to the degree that we are seeing now. I worry that cost begins to limit the access that people have to art.
From the release of imprisoned journalists in Myanmar to the sentencing of scammer Anna Delvey, this is all you need to know about the ins and outs of the art world from this week.
