Friday, March 30, 8-9:30pm
$5 admission
Object Lessons is a one-evening series of tiny lectures based on the objects from the current Proteus exhibition, Object Migration. Object Lessons takes some of these objects and focuses in on their stories, transforming the object into a lense to magnify history and social patterns. The talks will address the history of ornithology in America, nuclear [continue reading…]
Posted in Events on March 21, 2012 • Tagged bryan m wilson, lorena turner, migration, object lessons, sam droege, Tatiana Istomina
Saturday, January 28th 7-9 p.m.
Proteus Gowanus and the Museum of Matches invite you to join us for the opening reception of The Berlin Tunnel Project, an installation inspired by a declassified CIA document describing
a tunnel that was dug from West to East Berlin during the Cold War. The Museum of Matches, a one-room Cold War museum, occasionally invites visitors to respond to Cold War documents, photographs and memorabilia. The Berlin Tunnel Project is a collaborative installation by three artists whose countries of origin comprise the three [continue reading…]
Posted in Events on January 26, 2012 • Tagged Barbara Westermann, Berlin Tunnel, cold war, migration, museum of matches, Raymond Mingst, reception, sasha chavchavadze, Tatiana Istomina