A Sunday Mid morning Matinee..

A short documentary about

A Magic World!

'Abracadabra says the conjurer.. 

And on the instant quite impossible things happen.

He waves a wand and objects vanish,

come to life and are set in motion..'

'This is Karel Zeman..

Georges Melies successor and heir.

Animated drawings and figures long ago laid their spell on him

and he's still a captive in the kingdom of make believe..'

A short documentary from 1962 about

The Magic World of Karel Zeman!

~Prestidigitation!~ First show of the year! Jan 26th

Presenting ~

   the Musée’s first exhibition 

show of the year by 

Artist Tommi Cahill 

and Aural presentaion by Ronnie Barnett... 

with amazing balloon 

creations by

FUNNY EDDIE

~ Prestidigitation ~

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26th  7-10pm

Exhibit runs from January 26th to February 10th.

~Tommi Cahill is interested in imagery and media. She 

borrowed printing plates that date from the late 1800’s to the late 1950’s from magician and magic historian Mike Caveney which she printed on an old letterpress at the University of Redlands. The plates have not seen ink and paper in decades. The plates are mainly drawings of tricks and apparatus used in advertisements and of magicians who would pack them in a trunk and travel with them from town to town. Each time the magician would enter a new town the magicians’ assistant would carry the plates over to the local newspaper along with information about the show s/he would be performing. The plates and information would then be printed in the paper with the hope of gaining audience members for the shows.

   

   Tommi received her BFA at California Institute of the Arts and her MFA at Yale University. She has widely shown her work nationally as well as internationally. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches 

Photography full time at the University of Redlands. 

  ~Ronnie Barnett is a Texas born musician who now lives in Los Angeles. Ronnie has been performing and collecting records since the age of 5. Ronnie has played in the L.A. based band The Muffs during their entire 22 year existence. He was once pictured with David Lee Roth.  

Award winning Balloon creations by :

~ Funny Eddie is a former Marine turned Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Clown. He has a large repertoire of award winning balloon creations. In addition to being a professional clown, Eddie also works as a comedy magician.

A Plan B

Popcorn Pizza Projection Plan B Party

In light of the obstacle-d plan A... We have a plan B for the evening..      For our second act - We invite you to hang out, mingle, have some popcorn, a slice of pizza and watch a movie projection....  All from the comfort of your own lawn chair. [ bring a lawn chair if you'd like or find a spot on the couch or shag rug ] There will be plenty of refreshments also. Pull up a seat...

See you Sunday!

please stand by...

In the Meantime : “If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area.”

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~Prestidigitation~ at Musée16

Presenting ~

   the Musée’s first exhibition 

show of the year by 

Artist Tommi Cahill 

and Aural presentaion by Ronnie Barnett... 

with amazing balloon 

creations by

FUNNY EDDIE

~ Prestidigitation ~

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26th  7-10pm

Exhibit runs from January 26th to February 10th.

~Tommi Cahill is interested in imagery and media. She 

borrowed printing plates that date from the late 1800’s to the late 1950’s from magician and magic historian Mike Caveney which she printed on an old letterpress at the University of Redlands. The plates have not seen ink and paper in decades. The plates are mainly drawings of tricks and apparatus used in advertisements and of magicians who would pack them in a trunk and travel with them from town to town. Each time the magician would enter a new town the magicians’ assistant would carry the plates over to the local newspaper along with information about the show s/he would be performing. The plates and information would then be printed in the paper with the hope of gaining audience members for the shows.

   

   Tommi received her BFA at California Institute of the Arts and her MFA at Yale University. She has widely shown her work nationally as well as internationally. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches 

Photography full time at the University of Redlands. 

  ~Ronnie Barnett is a Texas born musician who now lives in Los Angeles. Ronnie has been performing and collecting records since the age of 5. Ronnie has played in the L.A. based band The Muffs during their entire 22 year existence. He was once pictured with David Lee Roth.  

Award winning Balloon creations by :

~ Funny Eddie is a former Marine turned Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Clown. He has a large repertoire of award winning balloon creations. In addition to being a professional clown, Eddie also works as a comedy magician.

a story about a dilapidated bath house

  

 ‘TUVALU’ 

                                           { Chulpan Khamatova as Eva }

 One of our favorite bath house films! It's a 1999 

experimental film from Germany directed by Veit Helmer.  

                                                   {Denis Lavant as Anton }

The style evokes early 20th century silent movies and motifs commonly found in German expressionism. The sparse dialog is presented in a mix of European languages. It's a story about keeping a dilapidated 

bathhouse a float in the midst of a desolate landscape.. 

                                                  { an action scene! }

January at Musée16! ~ film nights, art openings, events

We are looking forward and onward to 2013 and all of the grand things to come!

 ~ Sunday, January 20th at 6pm...

A Plan B Party.. { since plan A had to be canceled- and we apologize for that}

Come over to the Plan B Party!

Popcorn Pizza Projection Plan B Party

In light of the obstacle-d plan A... We have a plan B for the evening..      For our second act - We invite you to hang out, mingle, have some popcorn, a slice of pizza and watch a movie projection....  All from the comfort of your own lawn chair. [ bring a lawn chair if you'd like or find a spot on the couch or shag rug ] There will be plenty of refreshments also. Pull up a seat...

~ Saturday the 26th, 7-10pm.. Our first art opening of the year!  

The Musée will be taken over with ‘PRESTIDIGITATION’  by Tommi Cahill and Accompanied by the aural presentation of 

Ronnie Barnett. 

~ Tommi Cahill is interested in imagery and media. She borrowed printing plates that date from the late 1800’s to the late 1950’s from magician and magic historian Mike Caveney which she printed on an old letterpress at the University of Redlands. The plates have not seen ink and paper in decades. The plates are mainly 

drawings of tricks and apparatus used in advertisements and of 

magicians who would pack them in a trunk and travel with them from town to town. Each time the magician would enter a new town the magicians’ assistant would carry the plates over to the local newspaper along with information about the show s/he would be performing. The plates and information would then be printed in the paper with the hope of gaining audience members for the shows.

   Tommi received her BFA at California Institute of the Arts and her MFA at Yale University. She has widely shown her work 

nationally as well as internationally. Her work is part of the 

permanent collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. She 

currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches Photography full time at the University of Redlands. 

~ Ronnie Barnett is a Texas born musician who now lives in Los Angeles. Ronnie has been performing and collecting records since the age of 5. Ronnie has played in the L.A. based band The Muffs during their entire 22 year existence. He was once pictured with David Lee Roth.  

     

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Happy New Year from Musée16

Ring ring.. from us over here the other end of the line..

 For the New Year..

There are going to be some pretty incredible

things going on at the gallery!

The Musee is going to be sending out 

some amazing bulletins with all of the programs,

movie nights, art opening, sound performances, 

events and wonderful information that

you won't want to miss out on..

To sign up for the Musée Newsletter ~

 go to the contact page on our website :

http://musee16.com/

or send an email and contact us at :

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Wishing you a Kaleidoscope of color and sound..

... A bit of Len Lye in Dufay color and Biguine D'Amour by Don Baretto and his Cuban Orchestra to add Kaleidoscope colors and sound to your last week of the year...

As a student, Lye became convinced that motion could be part of the language of art, leading him to early (and now lost) experiments with kinetic sculpture, as well as a desire to make film. Lye was also one of the first Pakeha artists to appreciate the art of Māori, Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Island and African cultures, and this had great influence on his work. In the early 1920s Lye travelled widely in the South Pacific. He spent extended periods in Australia and Samoa, where he was expelled by the New Zealand colonial administration for living within an indigenous community.

Working his way as a coal trimmer aboard a steam ship, Lye moved to London in 1926. There he joined the Seven and Five Society, exhibited in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition and began to make experimental films. Following his first animated film Tusalava, Lye began to make films in association with the British General Post Office, for the GPO Film Unit. His 1935 film A Colour Box, an advertisement for "cheaper parcel post", was the first direct film screened to a general audience. It was made by painting vibrant abstract patterns on the film itself, synchronizing them to a popular dance tune by Don Baretto and His Cuban Orchestra. A panel of animation experts convened in 2005 by the Annecy film festival put this film among the top ten most significant works in the history of animation... more on Len Lye { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lye } 

Au courant calling cards for Musée16

The au courant Musée16 calling cards are finished!

 I custom designed, 

olympia machine typed, 

printed out, cropped and cut them myself!

They are made in smaller batches

so that the hand made unique quality comes through.. 

Happy holidays to you ~ And here's to another year! Sincerly Musée16

Dear Friends  ~    Thank You for helping me preserve the Musée with all of your ideas, collaborations, art, time, performances, donations, volunteering and more.. I'm Very much looking forward to another year of stupendous, unusual and marvelous~ness. Happy Holidays from Noëlle at the Musée. 

esoteric animation ~ Ladislaw Starewicz

Ladislaw Starewicz

 the Russian-Polish filmmaker/director, who pioneered the art of stop-motion animation in 1910 with his film Lucanus Cervus, and who spent the next 50 years creating nearly 100 shorts and feature-length films that comprise one of the most inventive and influential bodies of work in the history of cinema. But despite all of his technical and artistic achievements, even as we celebrate the centenary of his first triumph, in the West his name remains almost completely unknown to all but the most esoteric animation buffs.

 Like all of the greatest filmmakers, Starewicz did more than just create films; he used the craft of cinema to invent an utterly unique, self-contained world, one that reflected his own unadulterated artistic vision. His films could be bizarre, surreal, funny, disturbing, and deeply touching, sometimes all within the same scene. It was sometimes unclear if they were intended for children or adults. Like the filmmakers who carry his influence (Terry Gilliam, Jan Svankmajer, the Quay brothers, Tim Burton, and Wes Anderson among them), his films exist somewhere in between the realms of disturbing adult darkness and innocent childlike whimsy.

{ read full articlce ~ http://brightlightsfilm.com/71/71starewicz_kewley.php ~ by Pat Kewley is an artist, writer, and film fan living in Buffalo, New York. More of his writing can be found on Salon.com and McSweeneys.net. He can be reached through his website,www.patkewleyisgreat.com.}

A few of his wonderous works..

 Le Rat des villes et le champs (1926) The Town Rat and the Country Rat

and 

The Insects Christmas ~ 1913

Marvelous things this weekend ~ Dec. 8

Visit the Musee this weekend ~

The gallery will be open on Saturday from 12-6pm.
Exclusive collectables, original artwork and other marvelous things are for sale in the shop! 

The gallery will be open on most Saturdays!
Come see the 'Current Location' Exhibit. {Last day of the show is Sunday the 16th}

Open studio Flea market sale Saturday Dec.1st

We are getting ready for the 

Holiday Open studio  and Flea market sale at the gallery!

The Musee will be selling

art, objects, wonderments, toys, frames and more...

Come see the current art exhibit -

-Current Location-

Stroll around through both of the buildings at 

Factory Place... More than 20 studios will be open

for the Holiday Open Studio..

{tinsel is up and around and here is
a peak at some of the things that will be for sale}

Meet people, see art, workshops,

music and more!

There will be refreshments 

and a few food trucks.

12-6pm

This event is free and parking is free

here is the map-

http://www.yelp.com/map/musee16-los-angeles

and more info on fb-

https://www.facebook.com/events/469088793133683/

In a squat, in a dodgy suburb...

A Perfect get together for the holidays...

 {my personal favorite film for all seasons} ...

'Dogs in Space'

The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-be's who survive on a diet of old TV space films, drugs and good music. And the satellite SKYLAB could crash through their roof at any moment... 

read on about putting dogs in space...

tap on one of the images.

news of instant ongoing wonder

Yesterday I made a special ongoing

page of images just for the gallery..

the Musee is now on instagram.

Look for 

Musee16

wonderments, objects, art, visitors, 

interesting things and icons...

{splendidly inspiring Marcel Duchamp 

wearing a lamp shade

with his bicycle wheel - 1951}

a day at the gallery..

Spent the day at the gallery with Gabi,

Nicole and Pumpkin..

Talking about film screenings, shows to come and 

workshops in the making.

 Above photo - Gabi Mendoza,

Nicole Panter and Pumpkin pose in front

of Nicole's work..

And here is a nice shot of Gabi in front of

his giant photographic work.

by friends of the Musee...

Enjoy some recent blog reading

about the gallery

by friends of the Musee!

{photo by Stephanie Sheldon}

A splendid shop owned and curated by

Stephanie Sheldon

in the Pacific Northwest -

~ Noun : a person's place for things

located in Portland, Oregon ~

and 

{photo by Ava Alamshah}

A wonderful blog called

~ your friend ava ~

by Los Angeles artist and adventurer, 

Ava Alamshah

Last night's Current Location opening!

Thank you all for coming to the

Current Location

opening at the Musee last night!

And also a huge..

Thank you to all of the wonderful artists for

showing their work and sharing themselves with us.

Thank you Gabi for your creative curating skills 

and bringing it together..

We had a really great time!

Here are some snap shots from last night:

{Gabi curating}

{Jeff}

{work by noelle & james}

{art fan}

{work by Marie}

{artists and visitors}

{Elizabeth}

{Elisa}

{art fans}

{work by Nicole Panter}

Tonight! Current Location - An Art Exhibit!

See all of you at the opening tonight!

info here -

http://musee16.blogspot.com/2012/10/current-location-art-exhibit-nov-15.html