Music Love and Flowers: Youth and Culture in Monterey 1967 and Now
Opening Reception April 13! Get more info.
The Museum of Monterey is pleased to announce the opening of “Music Love and Flowers: Youth and Culture in Monterey 1967 and Now.” To mark the 45th anniversary of this baby boomer milestone and its present day relevance, the exhibition will be an exploration of the Monterey International Pop Festival, which took place at the Monterey Fairgrounds in June, 1967.
JIMI BURNED HIS GUITAR and the world changed!
Precursor to Woodstock, the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival was a ground-breaking celebration of musical genres and the beginning of youth based social movements to follow. The show will open in April 2012 and continue through January 2013.
This media-driven exhibition will tell the story of the musicians, audience, and city through film, music, poetry, photography, art, and conversation with the intention of creating a sensory and participatory “experience” for the visitor.
MoM Director and Curator Lisa Coscino is partnering with “A Perfect Haze” authors Harvey and Kenneth Kubernick, “The Hippie Dictionary” author John McCleary, Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Meriwether, Grateful Dead Manager Rock Scully, and others to produce an interactive festival experience complete with a film series, concerts, lectures, youth storytelling, beat and slam poetry readings, and panel discussions with luminaries of the past and present.
Ruth Bolduan: Costume, Landscape and Memory in Monterey
January 21 – May 6, 2012
The ongoing continuum of fashion’s evolution is an influential presence in Ruth Bolduan’s work, incorporating aspects of history, feminism, and socio-political power. The “reading” of costume and the subsequent painting of costume have become Bolduan’s method for a re-examination of the past, incorporating aesthetic insight with contemporary global issues and ideas.
The meaning of any costume collection is not always obvious without a grasp of its history. Through Ruth’s paintings, visitors to the Museum of Monterey will experience a fresh interpretation of the history and lives of the people in the Monterey area.
Bolduan’s recent paintings of women clothed in 18th century attire will be exhibited this season at the Mount Clare Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The exhibition at the Museum of Monterey will further develop the theme of reading history through costume, based on the museum’s collection.
CHICANITAS: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection
December 10, 2011-May, 2012
An advocate and avid collector of Chicano art, Cheech Marin’s most recent passion is collecting small paintings. Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection (size doesn’t matter) is an exhibition of paintings – all under 16 x 16 inches – showcasing 26 artists and a wide variety of artistic media. Ranging from photo-realism, to abstractions, portraits to landscapes, Chicanitas offers the viewer an intimate sampling from both established and emerging Chicano artists.
Press for CHICANITAS:
“Art of Identity” – Monterey County Weekly
“Cheech Marin brings Chicano art to Monterey” – Monterey Herald
Cheech Marin: “Chicanitas” – small paintings from his collection – San Francisco Art Books Examiner
The Funny Face of Chicano Art – Palm Springs Life
Read more about the artists who are part of The Chicano Collection.
History & Maritime Exhibits – Now Open
The Museum of Monterey has opened its Ocean View & Mountain View Galleries, on the second floor of the museum, with the eagerly awaited exhibition, Out of the Vault, showcasing art and artifacts, from the vast historical collections of the Monterey History & Art Association and the maritime collection of the Museum of Monterey, which tell the stories that cast Monterey as the historic center of California.
TheBlu
TheBlu is a global mission to create the ocean on the web, an interactive online world where every species and habitat is a unique work of art created by developers and digital artists around the world. The team is comprised of Academy award winning artists, technology innovators and execs from film, games and the web, including: Andy Jones (Academy award winner, Avatar), Kevin Mack (Academy award winner, What Dreams May Come), Louie Psihoyos (Academy award winner, The Cove), Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media lab). The project is passionate about increasing awareness of the world’s oceans on an unprecedented scale, leveraging the connectivity of the web.
The Museum of Monterey is the first museum to exhibit theBlu as it celebrates art, innovation, and the oceans. TheBlu is currently in invite-only private beta and won’t be accessible publicly until later this year. The Museum of Monterey is proud to present this early sneak preview into an evolving and growing art piece.
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