The Wild World of YouTube
For fun today I put the words “art gallery” into YouTube’s search engine. The results are quite interesting and range from the absurd to the sublime. They include a silly bit from Monty Python folks (whereby they EAT the art), a video by a group of improv actors who spontaneously turned the subway into an actual gallery opening (with coat check, passed wine, and well-dressed patrons staring at the “art” in deep contemplation), a tour of the Frank Gehry building at the Art Gallery of Toronto, a classic MGM cartoon from 1939 where the paintings and sculptures in a museum come alive at night (move over Harry Potter and ‘A Night at the Museum’!), an overview of a Turner exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, and a fascinating expose about the incredible masterpieces hidden away at the Tehran Museum of Art after the Iranian Revolution. There’s much more to explore if you choose to take a trip down the rabbit hole. Just be warned - a couple of minutes could turn easily into an hour!
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