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 Friday Special | Erika Serodio

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Lately, I’ve been trying to think about those things that were hard in a pre-pandemic world and are easier now. Things like commuting to class in the morning, spending all afternoon working in the library, and then really dreading that evening workshop or lecture I had previously added to my agenda. Sometimes I would just call it a day and go home instead of attending. I promise myself that when this is all over, I’m never going to be home again. Catch me at every social engagement, evening lecture, etc. etc., forever, for the rest of my life, cross my heart and hope to die. But until then, I’m telling myself, isn’t it nice that after a long day of sitting at my desk, I can curl up on my couch with a bowl of popcorn (glass of wine) and attend a lecture with outstanding museum professionals from all over the world? A past version of myself would have loved this. Current me – a silver lining. 

A Silver Lining | Source

Anyway, join me in making the most of this twisted world. And remember that if you make it to that zoom lecture, and you decide that A. you've been zooming enough lately, or B. it's not your thing, oops!  Technical difficulties! Back to Netflix. But I do hope you find something in this list that you enjoy. And I invite you to link to any other interesting events in the comments section. 

ETHEL and Friends: Balcony Bar from Home

Start your Friday night off right with the Met’s resident string quartet playing live in your living room:

Friday, October 23, 2020 (& every Friday for the rest of 2020)
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Free admission


Becoming Public Art: Working Models & Case Studies for Art in Public

Spend your Tuesday afternoons learning from industry experts on the forces shaping public art making today. Presented by the City of Markham and ART+PUBLIC UnLtd. 

October 13 to December 8, 2020
Every Tuesday from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Free admission, Registration required


Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property: In Light of What We Know Now

Sit in on a conversation between Met curators and contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet as they consider how their perspectives on an exhibition have changed with respect to global events this past year. 

Wednesday, October 28, 2020
6 PM EST
Free admission, Registration required


ART CONNECTS | Fall Reading Session With Indigenous Brilliance

Join Afuwa, Emily Dundas Oke, Jónína Kirton, and Michelle Sylliboy for a poetic and artistic response to the Vancouver Art Gallery's current exhibition: Uncommon Language. 

Thursday, October 29, 2020
7 PM EST (4 PM PST)
Free admission

Innovate: Public Spaces with Silo Studio

Visit with a curator from the Victoria & Albert Museum and two London-based designers who focus on designing for community spaces. 

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

12 PM EST (5 PM UK)

Free admission

AGO Live: Brendan Fernandes: The Left Space

This choreographed performance will use the grid formation of zoom to connect a team of dancers from their homes around the world, while engaging with the language of protests in our current time of global political uprisings. An interview between the artist and curator will follow.

Friday, November 6, 2020
7 PM EST
Free admission, Registration required

NEW YEAR, NEW ME, NEW MUSEUMS

MUSEUM MONDAYS

BY: EMMA HOFFMAN

Something you all should know about me is that every single year my new year's resolution is to "eat a sandwich". Why, you ask? Because sometimes it feels good to achieve a goal with minimal effort, to check something off your list or pat yourself on the back for completing that ONE thing you've set out to do. I have high expectations and goals for pretty much every other aspect of my life so I like to keep things ~chill~ when it comes to my new year's resolution.

However, for me a new year usually means reflecting back on the 365 calendar days that have just passed, and planning for the year to come. Since 2017 might be one of my last years to travel without having to consider vacation days, I'm thinking that I should take advantage of that fact. It almost feels sacrilegious for me to visit a new locale without checking out a local museum, or three, so I want to share a short-list of potential museums I'm hoping to visit in 2017, or hopefully sometime in the near future. Here's a special song to guide you through this journey of museum wanderlust with me:

Let's belt this out together. Source.

1. The National World War II Museum, New Orleans
I've encountered the WWII Museum in N'Orleans on several lists of the top museums in the U.S. and I've always wanted to go. As much of my research is based on Holocaust museums and I'm interested in how museums use empathy and testimony to immerse audiences in an historical narrative, I'm curious to see what this museum has to offer in terms of visitor immersion. It doesn't hurt either that my post-museum meal would inevitably consist of some Louisiana jambalaya and perhaps a beignet to top it all off.

The WWII museum's facade. Source.

2. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
I've sadly never visited Canada's West Coast. That's why the next stop on my museum tour of 2017 will be Vancouver, B.C. where I'll take in the sights and sounds at the Vancouver Art Gallery. I'm hoping to make it there in time for the show We Come to Witness: Sonny Assu in Dialogue with Emily Carr: a series of digital works that Assu has appended onto pieces in the Art Gallery's collection of works by the Group of Seven West-coast painter.

Spaced Invaders, 2014. Source. 

3. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

I've been to Venice once before, but it was only for a day-trip and I didn't get to see any museums (I know, it's a real sob story). Since the collection named for this enigmatic 20th-century woman is located in Venezia, I wouldn't mind taking a closer look. Upcoming exhibitions of note include a showcase of Picasso's beach-themed paintings and another exhibition later this summer examining the late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century French mystical symbolist artists. 

A very casual view of the Peggy Guggenheim museum. Source. 

That's all for now, folks! Please share any museums that you're planning to visit, or wish that you could visit in 2017 in the comments below, and stay fabulous!