Pin it ! The Best Museum in the World - touch and feel (the enamel)

Whoaaahhh... When we created The Coolest Museum in Japan video, we did not know that The Otsuka Museum of Art of fakes has already been nominated for The Best Museum in the World title.

Introduction.

The treachery of images. This is a pipe. This is not a pipe.

Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images.This is not a pipe (1929)

Question. (Art Historians and 3 others like this)

(Supposing that the answer was no, this is not a pipe) Does an image of an object satisfy emotionally? Hmmm...

Magritte knits verbal signs and plastic elements together, but without referring them to a prior isotopism. He skirts the base of affirmative discourse on which resemblance calmly reposes, and he brings pure similitudes and nonaffirmative verbal statements into play within the instability of a disoriented volume and an unmapped space. A process whose formulation is in some sense given by Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

(Michel Foucault, This is Not a Pipe, 1968) 

Answer. (Art Historians and 2 others dislike this, Martin cogitates)

We do not know. Yet an image of an image might. Or might not. Disclose, enclose the meaning of the world that is ready-at-hand. Reveal, shut down the truth of the artwork. The relations in which Dasein, or human beings of global communities whose culture has changed, exists.

This is not a pipe. This is a museum of fakes. The biggest museum in Japan. No canvases. No guards. No thefts. No iconoclasm. No crates. No condition-check. No restauration. (No emotion or butterflies stirred by the exciting view of thick layers of old paint dried on canvas either.) A real museum of fakes. Open to enamel-lovers only.


Gallery Talks (by robots) thrice a day.

The Best Museum in the World: The Otsuka Museum of Art , Japan

EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE.

video uploaded by nordanstad on 8 Jan 2011 here

Even Google Art Project cannot do much here !

Google Art Project not yet in Japan

17 museums around the world are now representing the ambitious Google Art Project, launched on the 1^st of February 2011. The idea of the project originated in London, where most museums have no fees, and therefore the project may be regarded as part of a culture of free global sharing. For more, see the official website http://www.googleartproject.com/ .

The Bosa Bosa Review also recommends a recently published article, Carly Berwick, Up Close and Personal with Google Art Project, in Art in America (April 2011, pp 23-24).

What participating museums and virtual visitors enjoy about the Google Art Project :

●  Free access: it is free for participants and free for users (According to Carly Berwick, “during the first two weeks after Googleartproject.com launched, 20,000 new visitors arrived at MoMA’s website via the Google site. (Average weekly traffic is 310,192.)”).

●  High-resolution: it brings Google’s gigapixel image-capturing capabilities and Street View technology into the museum.

●  Integration of social networking: online visitors can make a personal gallery from the participating museums and share it with others.

Matters of possible concern in Japan:

●  Availability of virtual tours discouraging visits at the museum and payment of fees.

●  Copyright issues: getting permission for sharing is not always likely to happen.

●  Lack of demand on the social networking stage, as virtual interaction is better defined by a culture of short-texting than by one of sharing images.

In order for art in Japan to go locally educational and globally available, fresh energies ought to be channelled into:

●  Encouraging free online interactive access to collections and galleries of a diverse, local and international audience of all ages. This sort of initiative can only be launched by firstly engaging into discussion with decision-making institutions and contemporary artists on the issue of free sharing.

●  Allowing local high-technology to contribute to the art scene.

●  Agreeing to the equal importance of sharing messages on viewable images.

The Bosa Bosa Review is looking forward to hearing about further developments in Japan, and hope that the Japanese art institutions will consider the Google Art Project and join it ere long.