Philipp Klinger - A Thousand Doors, Art Museum in Munich, Germany

Philipp Klinger - A Thousand Doors, Art Museum in Munich, Germany

Matthew Pillsbury - Museum Hours, 2004-2010

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Matthew Pillsbury - Museum Hours, 2004-2010

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The Louvre is evacuated before German invasion in 1939, its works returning in 1945

Karen Knorr - Musée Carnavalet, 2004 - 2007

The usual aim of the fable is to teach a lesson by drawing attention to animal behaviour and its relationship to human actions and shortcomings. Animals in fables speak metaphorically of human folly, criticizing human nature. Yet it seems that the nature of Karen Knorr’s work has another aim. In Knorr’s “Fables” the animals are not dressed up to resemble humans nor do they illustrate any explicit moral. Liberated, they roam freely in human territory drawing attenton to the unbridged gap between nature and culture. They encroach into the domain of the museum and other cultural sanctuaries which resolutely forbids their entry.

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Alécio de Andrade - Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1990

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1989

Photo by Thomas Struth

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Karen Knorr - Academies, 1994 - 

Within the spaces of the Royal Academy Schools in London, the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, and the Repin Institute in St Petersburg, Knorr reflects upon the relationship between the production of western art in the academy and the transmission and reproduction of such ideas through the museum. The series explores the foundation myths of European fine art culture and the link to national identity and patrimony.

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Iñigo Aragón - Retablos Contemporáneos

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Francis Alÿs, Nightwatch, 2004.  

Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.

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Loving Monet by Gibo S

A couple admires the color and texture of Monet’s Water Lilies at MoMA, New York.

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Loving Monet by Gibo S

A couple admires the color and texture of Monet’s Water Lilies at MoMA, New York.

Galleria Corsini, Rome, 1997

Photo by Doug Hall

 - The Path of Beauty, video for Musée du Louvre & Nintendo

“A women walks in the Musée du Louvre, alone. 
The museum is completely empty. 
We follow this young woman in her dreamlike journey through the different rooms of the museum, between amazement and beauty, art and poetry.”

See the video here. Music: Sigur Rós - Suð Í Eyrum