{"id":4256,"date":"2022-11-18T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T08:39:21","slug":"the-imaginary-museum-ben-eastham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/11\/18\/the-imaginary-museum-ben-eastham\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imaginary Museum &#8212; Ben Eastham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-imaginary-museum-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is an essential essay on contemporary art. The author takes us on a tour through a fictional contemporary art museum containing real artworks. He talks a bit about the works, offering insights that allow us to appreciate them more. It&#8217;s like wandering through a good art gallery, having a wide-ranging discussion with a hugely knowledgeable but somewhat cynical friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But lots of art critics write like that. However, Eastham is sceptical about the modern art industry and even more so about art criticism, and often goes off on entertaining tangents. The main premise is that this is a museum that he has constructed in his imagination, so you\u2019re constantly evading security guards by going through hidden doors, and unexpectedly encountering things that he doesn\u2019t remember including. It all adds to the fun. This is a fun book, but also learned and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an essential essay on contemporary art. The author takes us on a tour through a fictional contemporary art museum containing real artworks. He talks a bit about the works, offering insights that allow us to appreciate them more. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/11\/18\/the-imaginary-museum-ben-eastham\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,225,4],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-art","tag-ben-eastham","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}