Art museums are having fun with MAN’s swimsuit issue. (Special behind-the-scenes peek here!) Don’t miss their tweeted contributions:
- SFMOMA;
- Walker Art Center [at right];
- Whitney Museum of American Art;
- Hirshhorn’s foldout: part one, two, three, four and part five, which may be that painter’s masterpiece;
- Toledo Museum of Art;
- Archives of American Art;
- Wadsworth Atheneum;
- It’s hard to top this tweet from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (link to their artwork): “Miss Lemon Drop lost her swimsuit but she’s clearly been to the beach.”;
- Modern Art Museum Fort Worth;
- MoMA: Part one, two, three, four;
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at the IMA’s contribution and says: “Who needs a swimsuit?”;
- The New Orleans Museum of Art is thinking right along with the Met and the IMA with an what it calls an “eco-friendly” contribution.
- Art Institute of Chicago: part one, two, three;
- Hunter Museum!;
- The Hammer Museum… plus a beefcake bonus;
- Carnegie Museum of Art;
- Missouri History Museum turns back the clock to ~1888;
- The Phillips Collection;
- Baltimore Museum of Art (the one on the right especially!);
- Henry Art Gallery;
- … with more to come, I hope…
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Boudin’s 19th-Century take on a swimsuit “issue.”
…no Rineke Dijkstra?
Barbara Crane, represent!!!
Huh, that wasn’t the Hammer Beefcake I was expecting. But maybe the Felix Gonzalez-Torres go-go dancer’s silver hot pants don’t count as a swimsuit?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/01/5-minute-art-ra.html
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Nothing says “hubba hubba” like Gary Winograd’s “Beverly Hilton.”
A bevy of other beauties from the Henry’s collection – including Baldassari, Misrach, Sekula, and more here:
http://henryartcollections.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=swim&record=0
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Tyler,
I was reminded of this work in MoMA’s collection yesterday, though it seems Karen beat me to it in the comments!
Might I suggest, from LACMA’s collection, Coney Island by Paul Cadmus (!)
Also, The Swimming Hole by Eakins (though technically skinny dipping).
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