Review: Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful.
A. Eva and Franco Mattes, “Ceiling Cat,” 2016. By Philip Kennicott Philip Kennicott Art and architecture critic Email Bio Follow Art and architecture critic April 8 at 9:00 AM SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the exhibition “Snap+Share,” visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will see a small cat staring down at them from a crudely cut rectangular hole in the ceiling.
Just in case you might miss “Ceiling Cat” , the museum has a little note on the wall: “See the artwork in the middle of the ceiling in this gallery. Photographs are not only permitted but encouraged.” With that, a bit of critical distance breaks down, and the thing that was otherwise being examined dispassionately — how our habits of transmitting images have evolved over the past century and a half — suddenly feels more like a game we’re required to play.
David Horvitz,"241543903,” 2009-ongoing. What actually changed with this revolution in image-making, which made images instantly available to thousands, or now billions, of people? In many ways, nothing. People have been sending images through the mail since almost the invention of photography, and we have been distributing images of ourselves long before the invention of the word “selfie.” Peter J.
Philippe Kahn, “Sophie Lee Kahn birth picture, first photograph shared instantly through a digital camera, cellphone, and server with 2,000 people, June 11th, 1997.” Then there’s “Ceiling Cat,” which comes right after Hollenbach’s evocative video. It’s a good conversation starter for the museum world, a way to think about the dangers and opportunities in exhibitions such as this one.
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