• #The importance of art and culture to a civil society

  • theatlantic:

An Imaginary Art Museum Opens at Gitmo

A few minutes ago, I received an email proclaiming the opening of a new cultural institution, “The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History.”
Several artists are showing work in the Tipton Three Exhibition Space, and there’s a critical studies center as well. If you look up the place on Google Maps, you can see it above.
But The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History is not actually a real place, but a clever alternate reality fiction predicated on the idea that Gitmo’s closed and that Americans wanted to come to terms with what went on there.

Read more. [Image: Google Maps]

Gitmo fo yo money, here.

    theatlantic:

    An Imaginary Art Museum Opens at Gitmo

    A few minutes ago, I received an email proclaiming the opening of a new cultural institution, “The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History.”

    Several artists are showing work in the Tipton Three Exhibition Space, and there’s a critical studies center as well. If you look up the place on Google Maps, you can see it above.

    But The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History is not actually a real place, but a clever alternate reality fiction predicated on the idea that Gitmo’s closed and that Americans wanted to come to terms with what went on there.

    Read more. [Image: Google Maps]

    Gitmo fo yo money, here.