you woke me up.

10th
May

627 notes

weird to see somethin’ from my hometown on tumblr.

9th
May

78 notes

christopherschreck:

Plant As Decorative Element In A Gallery by Gene Pittman
2010 blog post for the Walker Arts Center that includes a great gallery of images selected from the Walker’s Exhibition Photography archives.
“One aspect of my position as a photographer here at the Walker is to document the exhibitions. While reviewing images of past exhibitions, I began to notice something now absent in the galleries: potted plants. Up until the opening of the Barnes building in 1971, potted plants were a staple in the galleries. While there are few exhibition views containing patrons, the plants were always present. Many of the plants seem to have been around for many years and well taken care of by the staff.”

9th
May

165 notes

christopherschreck:

THIS is an extremely interesting entry by Arden Sherman, a curator/writer focusing on the history of exhibition documentation photography.
Among other things, she talks about how, until as late as the 1980s, museums regularly incorporated potted plants into their gallery spaces:
“The infamous “white cube,” first articulated in the early years of MoMA, would regularly incorporate a plant (or three) into its cool geometry during its first few decades. Modern art museums only began to exile greenery in the late 1960s; by the mid-1980s it was as if they’d never been there.
Perhaps paradoxically, in the very moment of plants’ eviction, artists began to incorporate living matter into their work.”
Be sure also to check out Sherman’s blog MISE EN GREEN, which is probably my single favorite website at the moment.
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2013/01/proposal-for-a-museum-arden-sherman-mise-en-green-2

6th
May

50 notes

30th
April

3 notes

Plaque(s) by Becca Barnet

30th
April

43 notes

some kid in my creative writing class named his drug dealer character ‘lil dildo’

24th
April

67,864 notes