I posted this on my Facebook Page and after it had reached 6k+ people, 60+ likes and had 68 shares it struck me I really need to share this on the blog too
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Will Ferrell and Joel McHale join curator Aram Moshayedi for a tour of “Stories of Almost Everyone.” On view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, January 26–May 6, 2018.PLUS (below the video - and not available on Facebook!)
a collection of links to the story behind the exhibition and this video
The Exhibition
First the trad artspeak version.- The Hammer Museum - Stories of Almost Everyone (JAN 28-MAY 6, 2018) - Stories of Almost Everyone is an exhibition about the willingness to believe the stories that are conveyed by works of contemporary art.
- Listen to an audio guide written and narrated by Kanishk Tharoor for the exhibition.
- Art Viewer| Stories of Almost Everyone at Hammer Museum
- Blouin ArtInfo | "Stories of Almost Everyone" upcoming at Hammer Museum - is really rather earnest
- Frieze.com | ‘Stories of Almost Everyone’: Aram Moshayedi's Museological Mediations
A comment in the Frieze article
The presentation itself is refreshingly un-showy, sardonically allusive of the pragmatic efficiencies of art storage rather than gallery display
The Video
Next some alternative perspectives- The Art Newspaper | Will Ferrell and Joel McHale try to make sense of the art at LA’s Hammer Museum - Wonderfully tongue in cheek video, the museum's curator Aram Moshayedi takes the actors on a mock VIP tour of the show Stories of Almost Everyone
- ArtNetNews | ‘Is It Weird? I Want to Eat It’: Will Ferrell Gets a Hilarious Lesson in Cutting-Edge Art at the Hammer Museum - The actor is joined by Joel McHale for a mock tour of the museum.
- AdWeek | Baffled by Conceptual Art? So Are Will Ferrell and Joel McHale in This Museum’s Short Film - Eric Hirshberg directs the Hammer's self-deprecating comedy
- boingboing | Will Ferrell and Joel McHale visit the Hammer Museum
So what did you think?
Thank you for taking the time to research this! They may consider it tongue-in-cheek, but the reason it's so funny it's because they are saying what most of us think but don't say outloud--it's the truth. I don't think it's going to get more people to come see the exhibition (their purpose for the video) because it just reinforces what we already think, it's pretty stupid. Love Joel McHale's comment: "they've got a guard at night to keep someone from coming in to the socks". Please.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago, a local (Australian) exhibition included an ironing board with an iron sitting in it and a shirt thrown over it, as one of the entries.
ReplyDeleteThanks for brightening my day .... the Emperor's New Clothes
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