Event 3- Fowler Museum

I have to say that this museum was awesome. I have been at UCLA for four years and I am ashamed that I have not gone to visit it. When I first walked in the the first that caught my eye was the paintings to my right. The pictures of a building in Spain with the "diablo" and other figures. Second, was the GagaWaka and PostMortem exhibition by Vivan Sundaram. I had to stop and take it in before I even walked around. The first one that caught my attention was the Pill Fill. It caught my eye mainly because it reminded me of someone who abused prescription but also because it was hanging from the ceiling in a glass nylon zipper and it was almost representing death in a different dimension. Another one that was interesting was T Toga or Tampons. I would have never thought that I would see that ever in my life and I did and it was awesome. I also really liked Coffin because it used different dimensions and I like how the organs just seemed to be spread out as if it was on the floor but they looked so pretty and so shiny.


   

Next, the Lucas Family Gallery, I fell in love with the red "diablo" scene. It reminded me of the day of the dead. I really liked it because of the colors used. It was just so big, so vibrant, and so happy, it was able to put a smile on my face even if it was representing hell and death.
  

Furthermore, was the Sahmat Collective with its incredible use of furniture. There was times in which bricks were used as tables and some things were just sitting on the floor and I liked this. They used the spaces and dimensions of the room. I also liked how protesting slogans can be used as art itself.

 

Moreover, was the collection of Silver. The ship was incredible and the different sets of cutlery were awesome. Above one of the presentations of art I remember it said "Drinking in Style" and this helps us show how art is incorporated into every level of our social lives. We talked about this I think the first two weeks or so. Here we can see how art was used by the rich to show of wealth. Continuing, this entire museum really showed how art is not something you can just display on walls but on yourself by wearing it, living within it, and creating it. I have to say that is the my favorite museum. Since this is my last event I want to note how every museum incorporated a courtyard or some type of outside feature and I just find it interesting. 

 

Event 2- Hammer Museum

For my second event I went to the Hammer Museum. This is my fourth year at UCLA and I have never gone and it really interested me to go because I love museums and this museum is situated in a very weird place because it’s on the corner of two of the busiest streets in West wood and it just looks like a high rise building.

The first thing I want to say is that it’s the weirdest/ most difficult museums that I have ever visited in my life. I say this for one reason only and that is that I had no clue where to go and what galleries I could enter. The first floor was the easiest because it was pretty bright and open and I really like the video that was in one of the rooms. The video was showing different things like 2 range rovers being crushed, people marching down in some parade in Europe, people playing music, children jumping on inflatables. These things showed me destruction, power, and fun all within the realm of art.

Next, the second level I saw the Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley pictures and they caught my eye right away. The one that caught my eye was the Minotaur with Skull picture. I don’t know why but it did. All the paintings took me back to the week that we talked about the human body and how it is used because in some senses all the images were sexual, because they showed off a woman’s and man’s assets. I also liked how they seemed to be going into the wall because they were pushed in and the walls were white and the paintings were black and white.

Furthermore, the third level was really interesting too not only because of the galleries but the view. That’s really the first thing that caught my eye. Also, the paddle tennis tables. That was surprising and different. Moreover, the chairs were also different, they looked like vases and honestly if people weren't sitting on them I would have just thought that they were empty vases.

In all, to me this was more of a contemporary art museum because it wasn't really displaying much art in a sense of being in rooms for specific art but it used the entire building, the natural light, the outside to make it a museum and even though I appreciate that I honestly did not like that I felt lost.