LACMA Event 3

On November 17, 2013 I attended the LACMA.  This was my second favorite museum I attended, behind the Getty.   LACMA contained exhibits that had pieces about a lot that we have learned about this year.

The first exhibit I attended was an exhibit that included works from Arnes Varja.  This had my favorite piece of art, which was called My Shack of Cinema.  This was a house that was built only with camera negatives, it was amazing.  He even made the stools in the house out of film canisters.  The next piece of art that stood out to me was one that included tons of geometric shapes, which brings me back to what we learned in Unit 2.  It is really cool to see everything I am learning in exhibits, these geometric shapes have been in every museum so far.

The next exhibit we went to was Bruce Nauman's exhibit showing "in for the beginners".   In this exhibit there were two hands and Nauman's voice which said and performed all the combinations of all our fingers extending and retracting.  This exhibit had me so confused because I tried for 10 minutes to get the hang of this but could not seem to do it.  Nauman uses technology to show us the distance between words and actions.  

The next exhibit was Chris Burden's Metropolis II, this piece amazed me.  There was so much going on at once and must have taken years to make.  This exhibit really made me think back to Unit 3 and robotics of art, because this exhibit looks like the future to me.  

The next exhibit I attended I am not quite sure what the name is but it included tons of information that we have learned this year.  There were timelines explaining the study of the brain which is what we learned in Unit 7.  CP snow's name and two cultures was even mentioned in the exhibit which takes me back to the first week of this class.  It also included pictures that incorporated Unit 2 with geometric shapes.  This exhibit also had a box camera which I found really cool.  

The thing I did not like about the LACMA was that with our ticket we bought we were not even allowed to see all the exhibits available for some reason.  But besides that the LACMA had my favorite piece of art out of all 3 museums I have been too, the film one.  I would definitely suggest taking a short ride down Wilshire and going to the LACMA, it was very interesting.