a diorama of an art exhibition


a diorama

of an art

exhibition

Tuesday

a tiny museum on the moon




Another amazing fact about these tiny masterpieces is that they traveled into space without the official permission of NASA.moon-shot.jpg
It seems, in 1969 during preparations for Apollo 12, an unnamed NASA engineer helped artist Forrest “Frosty” Myers with his plan to spread art into space. The engineer attached a very small iridium-plated ceramic wafer measuring just 3/4″ x 1/2″ x 1/40″ and including miniaturized reproductions of the artworks to a hatch on the leg of the Intrepid landing module while it was at Bell Laboratories. The Intrepid was left behind on the moon when the astronauts returned to Earth.
The artists whose works were included on the chip were no slouches. In addition to Myers, the other five creative minds who contributed doodles were Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg, and John Chamberlain.
That’s right, there is a work by Warhol on the moon. No, it’s not another version of the ubiquitous Campbell’s soup can, but there are two different descriptions of Warhol’s lunar contribution. In a story in the New York Times in 1969 when Myers revealed his distribution of space art, the Warhol work was called “a calligraphic squiggle made up of the initials of his signature.” Others just say it looks like a penis, but that might have been too harsh a description to be printed for public consumption in 1969.
The Times story didn’t hit the stands until two days after Apollo 12 had left the moon, insuring that the space doodles would remain on the moon.
The chip wasn’t the only “art” on the moon’s surface on that historic trip in 1969. It seems some cheeky back-up crew members for the mission snuck some Playboy pictures into the astronauts’ checklists. Those nudes made a return trip to Earth...

a concise intermission found


Dadaism and Surrealism had a direct impact on many of the Beats: Dadaism with its attack on the elitism of high culture and its celebration of spontaneity;


Surrealism with its transformation of the Dadaist rebellion into positive social intentions and its focus on revelations from the subconscious.


Both movements, in a sense, developed as a reaction to World War I, just as the Beat Generation was reacting to the environment of post-World War II America.

Wednesday

meet the world's smallest traveling museum




Guess what my friends?
The long awaited, newfangled but equal to the former and recreated Musée has finally arrived.....
Meet the world's smallest traveling museum and gallery!