Art In The Age Of Instagram

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🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The social media app Instagram is plastered with artwork, ranging from selfies inside Yayoi Kusama's mirrored rooms, to snapshots of the iconic "Mona Lisa" to short poems and colorful, inspirational messages. But how does the app affect how we engage with all these works — and how makers and museums create and share it? We talked with artists, curators and critics for a look at art in the age of Instagram.

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0:00.0	There's this exhibit by the artist Yaioi Kusama.
0:08.7	It's at the Broad Museum and downtown Los Angeles, and it's beautiful, but really, really hard
0:15.2	to describe.
0:16.7	Sarah Lawyer can explain it better than I can.
0:19.0	She's an associate curator at the Broad.
0:21.5	This room is called Infinity Mirror Room, the souls of millions of light years away.
0:29.2	It has LED lights, lots and lots of LED lights that are glowing, going on and off, flickering
0:37.6	at times, and all around you, you have mirrors.
0:43.2	So on the floor, on the ceiling, and on all of the walls around you.
0:48.1	It's like you're floating in a room full of stars.
0:51.5	The thing about this room, this exhibit, when you go see it at the Broad, you actually
0:55.6	can't stay in the room that long.
0:58.0	You have the stopwatch.
0:59.0	Yes, it's 45 seconds, that's right.
1:02.3	It's like championship timing.
1:06.1	Sabrina Gizo is a visitor services associate at the Broad, and before every group of visitors
1:11.3	go into this room, Sabrina gives them a little spiel.
1:14.8	You're going to have 45 seconds in the room.
1:17.9	We ask that during that time that you stay on the rubber mat.
1:21.3	If she didn't give them a time limit, these visitors might stay in that dark room for
1:25.1	God knows how long.
1:27.0	Time to get the perfect selfie.
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