A tour of the Björk exhibition at MoMA
MoMA’s Björk retrospective was a critical dud, but the installations were highly photogenic -- which means the museum can console itself with some excellent Instagrams. Seen here: a Swarovski crystal mask designed by Val Garland, which was re-created for the show.
(Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times)A retrospective devoted to the music and costumes of the composer and singer Björk at New York’s Museum of Modern Art has drawn invective from art critics, who say the show needed better curation. The Times pays a visit.
The exhibition was mounted in a special two-story pavilion that occupied the museum’s central atrium.
(Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times)After poring through videos downstairs, visitors go upstairs, where they enter the show through a narrow hallway lined with TV monitors and sheet music (very theme park). It is here that the infamous headsets are distributed.
(Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times)Certainly, if there was one thing that came across in the exhibition, it’s that Björk has always been daring when it comes to her aesthetics. This is another dress by McQueen, created for her 2004 video “Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right).”
(Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times)A museum visitor takes in the knitted outfits worn by the singer for the album ‘Volta.” They were created by the art collective Icelandic Love Corporation.
(Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times)