{"id":520,"date":"2013-08-05T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/2013\/08\/05\/the-tate-modern-the-awkward-balance-of-art-and-absolute-rubbish\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:33:43","slug":"the-tate-modern-the-awkward-balance-of-art-and-absolute-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/the-tate-modern-the-awkward-balance-of-art-and-absolute-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tate Modern: The Awkward Balance of Art and Absolute Rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The front doors of the Tate Modern<\/p><\/div>\n

The Tate Modern is a modern art museum that is placed in a drastically renovated factory building. \u00a0Before this experience, I was honestly not a fan of modern art.\u00a0 Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art has changed my mind.\u00a0 When I first walked into the exhibit I thought, what in the world is happening?\u00a0 There was a money tree in a corner (literally a tree with money hanging off of it) and a pile of chicken anatomy plastered in a red plastic mold in another.<\/p>\n

After my initial shock, the exhibit seemed to be showing viewers how dependent the world is on money to provide us with material goods that we believe better our lives.\u00a0 This was represented by the many piles of gold coins or gold painted spots on or near objects and also how the exhibit was divided into rooms, making it a mini museum in itself.\u00a0 The exhibit allowed guests to interact inside of the art.\u00a0 For example, there was a very plainly decorated library where people could sit and read the various books that lined the shelves.\u00a0 Many artists try to portray political or social messages through their art so I think it would\u2019ve been interesting to take the time to see why certain books were put inside the exhibit. \u00a0\u00a0It also would have been cool to find out if they had originally been put in a certain place, since visitors had been grabbing them and putting them back in different places, which could be a commentary on how art is constantly changing, whether the artist means it to or not.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The book room of the Meschac Gaba exhibit.<\/p><\/div>\n

There was also a room with building blocks in the middle for guests to play with and another with giant puzzles of flags that didn\u2019t ever come together, which could be a political commentary on how disconnected countries are.\u00a0 Personally, my favorite part was the music room, where guests were invited to sit at the piano and play music, making a calm, homey atmosphere.\u00a0 There was also a tarot card reader near by, clarifying the sense of surrealism and magic that is the Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art exhibit.<\/p>\n

–Sami Schwanke<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tate Modern is a modern art museum that is placed in a drastically renovated factory building. \u00a0Before this experience, I was honestly not a fan of modern art.\u00a0 Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art has changed my mind.\u00a0 When I first walked into the exhibit I thought, what in the world is happening?\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[162],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-london-2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb2ffS-8o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}