Curation Video Reviews

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned?

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art was about Pop Surrealism also known as Lowbrow which includes comic books imagery, hot rods, rock n roll, and cold war imagery.  The video Display Modern Art: The Tate Approach is a program that displays art in the rooms of the Tate Modern as case studies. This showed how new theme-based exhibits were made in museums, after watching Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology I learned that more than 10,000 Native Americans remains are unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. in museums such as the Smithsonian. Metropolitan spoke about Philippe de Montebello worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was in charge of over 84,000 art pieces and exhibits in the metropolitan museum.

2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

The videos somewhat relate to the exhibition project because mine was set up in the Burchfield Penny Art center and The Tate Approach shows how exhibits are set up in Art Centers. The Lowdown on Lowbrow somewhat relates because it included imagery from the cold war. Although my exhibit focused on the Civil Rights Movement, they still have history in common.

3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to understanding of the art concepts you practiced while creating your curation project?

I thought the films were informative because it gave me a lot of background information of how these exhibitions are made. It taught me about different aspects of showing art and this made me go back to when I created my curation project because I started to think about the work it took to get the exhibition together instead of the art work itself.