Victoria & Albert Museum: Post Modern Ghetto-Blaster... now iPod Friendly. I had the chance to see the Power of Making exhibition prior to class starting and I must say it was quite the exhibition. The entire show was based on the idea of extreme-craft objects that embody virtuosity. However on this day we had the opportunity to see the Post-Modernism exhibition, the finale of exhibitions the V&A had put on in the last decade beginning with Modernism. Being a Design museum the objects and pieces in Post-Modernism really glorified the architecture, style and general "look" of post-modernism. Having a few objects after the 1980s made the bold statement that post-modernism imploded and crashed due to its fatal encounter with money. However I believe that the V&A left out interesting interpretations of how post-modernism changed and continued to evolve into the works of Gil Scott-Heron's This Revolution Will Not Be Televised or Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum (especially since they included Haim Steinbach's Supremely Black 1985 - despite it being specifically design work, Steinbach has been included/accused of being more a curator than artist). We also had the privilege of speaking to the head curator of the exhibition, Glenn Adamson. It was an absolute treat. Glenn continually blew my mind with his expansive knowledge of, well, everything and his willingness to consider a multitude of ideas/constructions. He made strong arguments for what was represented in the exhibition and all in all it was a really tight show while covering many different facets of post-modernism. Kudos Glenn, I enjoyed the conversation very much.
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