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Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert
Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert | Marc-Antoine Mathieu
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The next volume in the striking collection in co-publication with the Louvre museum. An art assessor must evaluate the vast collections of the Louvre in an alternate Kafkaesque world where all is warehoused in an endless ever deepening succession of basement levels. Mathieu, an artist who marries Escher with Kafka, brings stinging irony to the pompousness of art history.
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Kenyazero
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Mehso-so

I just don't appreciate satire the way it deserves to be appreciated. This had a lot of intruiging and funny moments, and I loved the jokes on framing and the Mona Lisa, but I just didn't enjoy this Louvre comic that much. #Comic #Louvre

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Kenyazero
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I can‘t decide if I am intrigued by this absurd comic poking fun at museums, art academia, and itself, or if I hate it. Either way, this discussion about literal framed art devolving into such simple frames that the curator imagines art presented as sequences (that look familiar to any comic reader) is killing me 😆