archaeology and art

polly: The number one name for archaeology and art is of course Mark Dion. His right into digging up stuff and often presents his work like museum style. In Frieze, April, issue 90 last year there was a little review on his New York exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. Is pretty funny how obsessive this guy is about his digs. The write-up talks of how he rooted around with a bucket and spade for interesting artefacts from the demolished site of the old museum and surrounding sites. The project/exhibition was called Rescue Archaeology and consisted of 3 fireplaces, ceramic shards, razor blades and children's marbles, bottle-caps from the 50s and other such miscellany. This was the opening exhibition to the reopening of the museum and showed the interesting connection the objects had to the forgotten, ignored and destroyed artefacts. A melancholic sense of the memory of the old in a presentation of the new.

Cool quote about art, by Albert Barnes:
"Art is a fragment of life presented to us enriched in feeling by means of the creative spirit of the artist."

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