Artist and activist Filip Noterdaeme sent out hundreds of flyers to protest the "absurdity of commerce infiltrating an art museum" in response to the Louis Vuitton store at the center of the
© MURAKAMI exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The Louis Vuitton handbags are the result of a collaboration between Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton creative director, Marc Jacobs. Filip, the director of HoMu (the Homeless Museum of Art) added his own thumbprint, embedding the Brooklyn Museum's logo and the HOMU logo (in the form of a howling coyote) in the design of his flyers.
No word as to whether anyone actually walked into the store to demand their discount.
Shortly after I saw Filip's flyer I went to see the brilliant documentary on Louise Bourgeois called The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine . In it, their is an interview with the gorilla suited Guerrilla Girls, artists who began to protest in 1985 when the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened an exhibition titled "An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture." It was supposed to be an up-to-the minute summary of the most significant contemporary art in the world. Out of 169 artists, only 13 were women. All the artists were white, either from Europe or the US. See their hilarious poster (above) called The Advantages of Being a Women Artist.
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