Georgetown University Art Aficionados

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On the biggest shopping day of the year, a message from Barbara Kruger. 

[Barbara Kruger. I shop therefore I am. 1990]

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On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race

Standford, Harvard, U Chicago, Rice, Princeton are coming in hot, Gtown want to follow up?

“Campus museums and arts centers, offering performances and public exhibitions, are intended in part to help schools mend strains with their communities while appealing to students who “expect an advanced university to have an art museum as part of what they offer, especially in a world where the visual is so foregrounded,” 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/arts/design/on-elite-campuses-an-arts-race.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1#

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Rodriguez-Gerada's first project in the US is titled "Out of Many, One," maybe better known as E pluribus unum. 

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Massive Portrait on the National Mall

"Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada. Composed of 2,000 tons of sand and 800 tons of topsoil, it spans over six acres and took four weeks to complete. The face itself is a composite image created from photographs of 50 young men from different racial backgrounds, entitled "Out of Many, One" — the English translation of the Latin e pluribus unum on the seal of the United States."  

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Happy Birthday Robert Rauschenberg! 

An American painter who's works anticipated the Pop art movement, Rauschenberg is probably best known for his "combines." He wanted to work in the "gap between art and life" through these combines. On them he said,

"I wanted something other than what I could make myself and I wanted to use the surprise and the collectiveness and the generosity of finding surprises. And if it wasn't a surprise at first, by the time I got through with it, it was. So the object itself was changed by its context and therefore it became a new thing." 

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Art 101

sym·me·try noun \ˈsi-mə-trē\

The correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.

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Zola Jesus talks about her experiences performing in a museum as an atypical venue space. We'll get to see for ourselves though at the Hirshorn's 40th Anniversary After Hours this coming Friday! Check out their website for more info, we think its pretty cool 

http://hirshhorn-afterhours.tumblr.com/

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"Autumn Rhythm," painted in October of that year demonstrates the beautiful balance between accident and control Pollock maintained in his technique. It reminds us of nature, not just by its title, but in its coloring, horizontal orientation, and sense of ground and space. 

Its October again, and I think we call all agree that Fall at Georgetown is like nothing else. Ready to breathe in that Autumn air. 

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Jackson Pollock, 1950

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NYC's High Line Park Does a Juice Cleanse

If you were in New York city over the summer you may have unknowingly passed by one of the new additions to the Highline, artist Josh Kline's vending machine.

As apart of the park's exhibit Archeo the vending machine titled "Skittles", along with the other sculptures throughout the park, is meant to represent a recent past, a wasteland of discarded objects soon to be the findings of our archaeological future.

A satirical play on the modern juice cleanse trend, inside this industrial refrigerator are a number of...unconventional blends. Obscure ingredients including kale chips, night life, sneakers, phone bills, pepper spray, and american apparel are each meant to convey a unique contemporary lifestyle. When grouped together though in such a display they seem to survey the city's aspirations, tastes, and in some cases deprivations.  

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(via If Yayoi Kusama Designed a Video Game)

Hohokum, a video game where you play a long, thin worm that changes color based on direction, isn’t just an art-ier version of Snakes. Released last month for PS4 and PS Vita, Hohokum is considered an “art video game” by developer HoneySlug, who created it in collaboration with British artist and illustrator Richard Hogg.

READ MORE

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RSVP: http://goo.gl/GsDWgc

Hope you all can make it out

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The Beginning of Electronic Music?

Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist, Post Cubist Art Film considered today to be one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking. 

Originally it was set to a score of noise music, one must hear it to get a real sense of its chaos.

16 pianos, 3 airplane propellers, and 7 electric bells.

I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.

—John Cage The Future of Music: Credo (1937)

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Enter the Georgetown College Dean's Office Photo Contest!

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Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” went dark for Earth Hour! http://bit.ly/1fsrXWm

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Eminem made out of M&Ms

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i’ve seen everything there is to see in this world

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Sketch Trip!

Though the rain may suck today, it will soon be April and the forecast is looking up! In celebration of Spring, GUAA will be leading a sketch trip to Dumbarton Oaks this coming Saturday 4/5 from 2 - 5 PM. We will be meeting at the front gates and walking over. GUAA is supply drawing pencils, charcoal, sketch paper, watercolors, and snacks! In case of rain, Dumbarton also has a beautiful museum and library to check out!  Also make sure to check out the cool events going on for GU Arts Week! (https://www.facebook.com/events/493597870745388/)  See you there!

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