Museum of Peripheral Art
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Publication history | 2009–2020 |
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The Museum of Peripheral Art (MoPA) was an arts project that was active between 2009 and 2016. During that time, more than 680 articles, art reviews, and interviews were posted about the arts, film, and other media to a blog that supported the project. There were also alternative art shows and happenings associated with the project.
Description
"Peripheral Art" was coined for the blog to include art created in the periphery of the arts world and urban centers. The term plays on the idea of peripheral vision. The difference between peripheral art and outsider art is that the latter is made by self-taught artists with typically no direct influence from art schools and other art-related institutions, whereas peripheral art is very conscious of the artworld but not central to its economic, political, and social influences.
The concentric and radiating rings of the MoPA logo represent the television and radio waves that emit to the periphery of art centers such as New York City.
While the blog continued into the 2020s, there were only a handful of posts after 2016. The musings in the blog about peripheral art were later played out during the COVID-19 pandemic when museums and galleries were forced to close and art patrons began to experience art in a peripheral manner, and artists repositioned themselves from the very centers of the artworld that supported them.
One of the happening projects associated with MoPA was a series of photography shows known as Under the Hood, in which hundreds of photos were taken of the people who lived and worked around cultural institutions and often displayed the same day, to which the subjects were invited and could take their portraits home with them. John Flood, a New York Public Library manager wrote of one of the experiences, "This show came about as a way to define and document the part of New York that has been this artist’s work neighborhood for the past 11 years, but the project quickly turned into something different: a spark of new friendships and new discoveries."[1]
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