Do Pop art and museums mix?
I write this lying on a furry beanbags in a chill space, blasting Jefferson Airplane and Jimo Hendrix, walls projected with lava lamp style oil videos.
Lyng here, I feel the curators of the space aims to evoke a new idea in the 60s: break down harmful law and order. One aim was to use art to make it feel weird to enforce pointless rules
I watch a small girl tried to drag two beanbags together. Six other beanbags are unused. A security guard kindly tells her off, no doubt following his instructions.
I saw it as a tiny example of what the 60s aimed to do: make an environment where enforcing pointless rules felt wrong. Change the norms.
This is one of my critiques of pop art museums in general: despite their best intentions, the curators are too milquetoast to actually recreate the aim, purpose behind pop art. To recreate the feeling, these curators would give very different rules to the exhibit guards. What might those rules be?