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Contemporary History Through Printmaking The goal of MoMA’s Print & Illustrated Book department’s latest show entitled Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, is simple: to explore how various printmaking techniques have been used in South African art since the 1960s, when the museum first began collecting African art. The exhibition catalogue accompanying the show, through which this article will explore and review the exhibition, is a teaching tool for a purely educational show. Instead of focusing on the wealth of adamant self-expression produced by artists living in a country whose racist organization of society began in the 17th century and still lingers today, Impressions from South Africa filters this agitation into five tidy categories of printmaking.  Image caption: Norman Catherine, “Witch Hunt” (1988). One from a series of six drypoints with watercolor additions, plate: 9 13/16 × 12 3/16″ (25 × 31 cm). Publisher: the artist, Hartbeespoort, South Africa. Printer: Caversham Press, Balgowan, South Africa. (via MoMA) (click to enlarge)

Contemporary History Through Printmaking

The goal of MoMA’s Print & Illustrated Book department’s latest show entitled Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, is simple: to explore how various printmaking techniques have been used in South African art since the 1960s, when the museum first began collecting African art.

The exhibition catalogue accompanying the show, through which this article will explore and review the exhibition, is a teaching tool for a purely educational show. Instead of focusing on the wealth of adamant self-expression produced by artists living in a country whose racist organization of society began in the 17th century and still lingers today, Impressions from South Africa filters this agitation into five tidy categories of printmaking. 

Image caption: Norman Catherine, “Witch Hunt” (1988). One from a series of six drypoints with watercolor additions, plate: 9 13/16 × 12 3/16″ (25 × 31 cm). Publisher: the artist, Hartbeespoort, South Africa. Printer: Caversham Press, Balgowan, South Africa. (via MoMA) (click to enlarge)

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Jul
06

Via dlkcollection and the blogger does the math for the Cartier-Bresson show, which had 412,379 visitors: The exhibit was open from April 11th through June 28th. Given that the museum is closed on Tuesdays, that makes for a total of 68 visitor days. So roughly 6,064 people visited the CB show every day it was open. Given the museum is open on average 7 hours a day (10:30AM to 5:30PM, we’ll gloss over the later hours on Fridays), this means there were roughly 866 visitors to the show every hour. This translates to approximately 14.4 visitors entering every minute, or about one new HCB visitor every 4.2 seconds, all day, every day. Pretty mind boggling stuff. 

Via dlkcollection and the blogger does the math for the Cartier-Bresson show, which had 412,379 visitors:

The exhibit was open from April 11th through June 28th. Given that the museum is closed on Tuesdays, that makes for a total of 68 visitor days. So roughly 6,064 people visited the CB show every day it was open. Given the museum is open on average 7 hours a day (10:30AM to 5:30PM, we’ll gloss over the later hours on Fridays), this means there were roughly 866 visitors to the show every hour. This translates to approximately 14.4 visitors entering every minute, or about one new HCB visitor every 4.2 seconds, all day, every day. Pretty mind boggling stuff. 

hragv Posted by hragv

Sep
28