This blog emailed the following question to Max Presneill, TAM's director and curator:
"What's New, Pussycat, closes March 5. Are the final few days of a show -- particularly one you co-curated -- exciting? Sad? Bittersweet?"
Presneill's email reply:
"By the time the close of a show arrives we are already way into the next exhibition – arranging shipping, getting the catalog together and that sort of thing. We have moved on from that particular relationship and are courting the next one, ha, ha."
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Exhibition Breakdown
What goes up, must come down....
Photos shot a couple of days after the conclusion of What's New, Pussycat?
Photos shot a couple of days after the conclusion of What's New, Pussycat?
Eavesdropping
Eavesdropping at the museum:
Man: You smell really nice.
Woman: Thank you. People always say that.
Man: Well, you do.
Woman: I don't know why. I smoke. I don't wash my clothes that often.
Man: Hmm.
Woman: I do use cocoa butter in my hair.
Man: That must be it.
Man: You smell really nice.
Woman: Thank you. People always say that.
Man: Well, you do.
Woman: I don't know why. I smoke. I don't wash my clothes that often.
Man: Hmm.
Woman: I do use cocoa butter in my hair.
Man: That must be it.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
First Sign of Spring
If the First Sign of Spring is Bears Awakening From Slumber, then the first sign of a new exhibition is a box bearing art, still sealed, newly arrived from Japan, sitting on a side table in a museum director's office.
TAM's next show, Gateway Japan, opens later this month.
TAM's next show, Gateway Japan, opens later this month.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Alpine Village: An Art Review
Alpine Village
An Art Review
Take the 110 South towards TAM, exit at Torrance Boulevard.
What’s the can’t miss banner at the bottom of the off-ramp?
“Alpine Village.”
There’s also some accompanying text about a $19.95 champagne brunch, or something like that.
Here’s the web buzz on the Village.
And the joint’s own website, decorated pre-St.Patrick’s day with shamrocks, lays claim to being home to both Oktoberfest and weekly salsa classes. Eurozone, baby.
That Alpine sign got WIR thinking about food and the world’s great museums….
Go to the Met in New York and you’ll sit on those concrete front steps eating a hot dog or a pretzel from a cart. (Alas, health department, no more potato knishes?)
Go to the National Gallery in D.C. and sit in the European sophisticate espresso bar / fruit tart café, near where the water pours down.
As noted here, go to the Ufizzi and consume a flavor of gelato for each block along the way.
The Getty has a decent, affordable cafeteria with those killer sunset ocean views, too. Get the soup and one of those airplane bottles of wine, right?
We’ll stop here for the moment, but a question hangs…
Why is it that areas around art galleries tend to be lousy with restaurants, but museums tend to have push carts, food trucks, or their own joints?
Is it zoning? Size? Fear that if my man TiGeorges’ Chicken restaurant catches fire it’ll burn down The Temple of Dendur?
Or is it is simple as that museums are their own destination – often for tourists and school kids? Whereas high end galleries cater to the wealthy who can afford to pay for a fine meal to go along with the Rauschenberg they just acquired?
Or that to visit a gallery is free, while a museum trip for a couple or family of four can bust the billfold, leaving little left over except to go to the McDonald’s that is shamefully incorporated into the Air & Space Museum in D.C., or the California Science Center in L.A.’s Exposition Park?
(On second thought, fast food at science and technology museums does make sense.)
Anyway, the Torrance Civic Center has vending machines; TAM has a staff break room.
Here’s to Alpine Village opening an annex on the sculpture patio.
An Art Review
Take the 110 South towards TAM, exit at Torrance Boulevard.
What’s the can’t miss banner at the bottom of the off-ramp?
“Alpine Village.”
There’s also some accompanying text about a $19.95 champagne brunch, or something like that.
Here’s the web buzz on the Village.
And the joint’s own website, decorated pre-St.Patrick’s day with shamrocks, lays claim to being home to both Oktoberfest and weekly salsa classes. Eurozone, baby.
That Alpine sign got WIR thinking about food and the world’s great museums….
Go to the Met in New York and you’ll sit on those concrete front steps eating a hot dog or a pretzel from a cart. (Alas, health department, no more potato knishes?)
Go to the National Gallery in D.C. and sit in the European sophisticate espresso bar / fruit tart café, near where the water pours down.
As noted here, go to the Ufizzi and consume a flavor of gelato for each block along the way.
The Getty has a decent, affordable cafeteria with those killer sunset ocean views, too. Get the soup and one of those airplane bottles of wine, right?
We’ll stop here for the moment, but a question hangs…
Why is it that areas around art galleries tend to be lousy with restaurants, but museums tend to have push carts, food trucks, or their own joints?
Is it zoning? Size? Fear that if my man TiGeorges’ Chicken restaurant catches fire it’ll burn down The Temple of Dendur?
Or is it is simple as that museums are their own destination – often for tourists and school kids? Whereas high end galleries cater to the wealthy who can afford to pay for a fine meal to go along with the Rauschenberg they just acquired?
Or that to visit a gallery is free, while a museum trip for a couple or family of four can bust the billfold, leaving little left over except to go to the McDonald’s that is shamefully incorporated into the Air & Space Museum in D.C., or the California Science Center in L.A.’s Exposition Park?
(On second thought, fast food at science and technology museums does make sense.)
Anyway, the Torrance Civic Center has vending machines; TAM has a staff break room.
Here’s to Alpine Village opening an annex on the sculpture patio.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Art as Everyday
A screen grab of City of Torrance official tweets, demonstrating the interplay here between city, art, and service.
From an outsider's point-of-view, at least, being included matter-of-factly in tweets like the above could help further popularize and demystify what goes on at cultural institutions.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
MeetUp at TAM? They did.
Plus, Tom Jones and more from the World Wide Web.
MeetUp at TAM? Looks like these four women did.
Search "What's New Pussycat Torrance" and two clicks brings a surfer to, "BaldessariYourLife."
(The first click was here.)
And, before the Pussycat exhibition concludes March 5, here's a YouTube link to some singer.
Search "What's New Pussycat Torrance" and two clicks brings a surfer to, "BaldessariYourLife."
(The first click was here.)
And, before the Pussycat exhibition concludes March 5, here's a YouTube link to some singer.
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