Touch Stuff At A Museum
Usually, museum security people bask in the fun of telling people to move away from the artwork. Now through September 5th, all that changes at the Guggenheim.
The Shapes of Space highlights pieces from the permanent collection that focus on space as an elastic entity. The exhibit groups pieces together based on theme rather than a timeline. Themes include psychological space, imagined space, and infinite space.
What better space to install the Shapes of Space than Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda, a famous museum and art space named after a man who played with shapes.
Now onto that whole touching the art thing. Some of the exhibit is interactive; it DEPENDS on you to touch it. For example, Piotr Uklański’s Untitled work is a disco-reminscent-of-Saturday-Night-Fever dance floor). Pretty cool, huh? People strut their stuff and boxes of color move and flash and change.
Also at the Guggenheim under the category of Things You Aren’t Allowed To Touch:
Arcadia and Anarchy: Divisionism and Neo-Impressionism, ends August 6th
Solomon’s Gift: The Founding Collection of the Guggenheim, ends January 9th, 2008
As well as the permanent collection of ongoing exhibits.
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