Qual è il fondoschiena più bello della storia dell’arte?
E’ questa la domanda della nuova challenge social lanciata su twitter dallo Yorkshire Museum di York (Inghilterra) e indirizzata ai musei di tutto il mondo.
La singolare social battle si è aperta a fine giugno durante la quarantena, nel momento in cui nel museo inglese (e in tanti altri musei del mondo) si era azzerato il numero dei visitatori dovuta al lockdown per l’emergenza coronavirus e ha visto la partecipazione di oltre 30 musei internazionali che hanno pubblicato su twitter le immagini delle loro opere d’arte con ‘sederi’ artistici raffiguranti, accompagnati dall’hahstag #BestMuseumBum (in basso).
Tra questi, hanno partecipato lo Yorkshire Museum di York che l’ha lanciata, The Andy Warhol Museum di Pittsburgh, il M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art di Kaunas, l’ Ota Memorial Museum of Art, il CincyArtMuseum di Cincinnati, il Wallace Collection di Londra, il Musée Rodin di Parigi, il Museus de Sitges di Barcellona, il Parco archeologico di Ostia antica, il Palazzo Ducale di Venezia (questi ultimi hanno pubblicato la loro opera dopo un sollecito di socialbest ) e tanti altri.
IT’S TIME FOR #CURATORBATTLE!?
Today’s theme is #BestMuseumBum!
This cracking Roman marble statuette depicts an athlete at the peak of fitness! It may have decorated the town house of one of Eboracum’s wealthier residents. Has someone taken a bite out of this ??
BEAT THAT!? pic.twitter.com/N3A6KYz339
— Yorkshire Museum (@YorkshireMuseum) June 26, 2020
We raise your athlete and instead give you the bum of a drunken fish. Yes you heard me.
Made by Pamela Mei Yee Leung, it was part of a body of work which married animals and humans together to create mythological creatures with personalities. #BestMuseumBum #CuratorBattle pic.twitter.com/qUAa3NgGcG
— York Art Gallery (@YorkArtGallery) June 26, 2020
We think this is the #BestMuseumBum! Andy Warhol, “Torso (Male Buttocks)”, 1977, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. #CuratorBattle @YorkshireMuseum #AndyWarhol #warhol #art pic.twitter.com/lg3X9vnZlh
— The Andy Warhol Museum (@TheWarholMuseum) June 30, 2020
#BestMuseumBum #CuratorBattle @YorkshireMuseum
Throughout her life, Meila Kairiūkštytė-Balkus was interested in the topic of femininity, which is reflected in her work “Elena I”. Her sculptures are naturalistic, seeking to convey real rather than idealized forms of a woman. pic.twitter.com/QJfmB9gg9z— M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (@CiurlionisMus) July 1, 2020
How about these bums of SUMO wrestlers in our collections? These bums were painted by Hokusai!! #CURATORBATTLE #BestMuseumBum #おうちで浮世絵 pic.twitter.com/DH4rAyQ8Xs
— 太田記念美術館 Ota Memorial Museum of Art (@ukiyoeota) June 26, 2020
Sun’s out, bum’s out ☀️ Do you have a favorite bum in our collection?#CuratorBattle #BestMuseumBum
“Nude Back, Study,” Frank Duveneck (American, b.1848, d.1919), painter, Circa 1879, oil on canvas, Gift of the Artist, 1915.119 pic.twitter.com/9wxunrnpza
— CincyArtMuseum (@cincyartmuseum) July 9, 2020
#Apoxyomenos statues are athletes using strigils to clean their skin by scraping off oil. ?゚マロ️?
This next-to-godly young man is the highlight of @mapoxyomenos in #Croatia and he’s on our list to visit! ? #Museumbums pic.twitter.com/wRExAo1mGT
— MuseumBums ?゚マロ️? (@museumbums) August 21, 2020
Another #CURATORBATTLE Etty for #BestMuseumBum today, this time ‘Man Lying Face Down’.
We like to think he’s just been to the freezer and realised he ate the last Cornetto last night. And that he can’t get the drawer back in and that the whole freezer needs defrosting ☀️ pic.twitter.com/7pJ9gfTVdN
— Scarborough Museums (@SMTrust) June 26, 2020
For today’s #CURATORBATTLE (or perhaps #CURATORREBUTTAL?) theme of #BestMuseumBum, we present Hercules knocking it out of the park…
A work by the goldsmith Francesco Pomarano, this boxwood statuette was already a celebrated piece in the #sixteenthcentury.#WallaceFromHome pic.twitter.com/3LoD6JkIOa
— Wallace Collection (@WallaceMuseum) June 26, 2020
Curators around the world are sharing their #BestMuseumBum for #CuratorBattle. We offer up a satirical bum: this anti-Hitler Pin Cushion from the United States allows you to stick pins into the Fuhrer’s behind. Proceeds for the sale of the pin cushions went to the US war effort. pic.twitter.com/NTuTPxEFJr
— FreedomMuseumNL (@Never1Story) July 14, 2020
We’re a bit late to the party, *butt* we think our 10th Anniversary fairy Wishes could be a strong contender for #BestMuseumBum ?゚ルハ @YorkshireMuseum
? Book a visit to see her looking peachy no matter the weather – https://t.co/U4OlzK7udD pic.twitter.com/yvStZnBveE
— The Trentham Estate (@TrenthamEstate) July 9, 2020
Here is our submission for #BestMuseumBum! These buns are ethereal. ?¬ワᄄ
Bertram Charles Binning, ?ンメマ?ンメニ?ンメヤ ?ンメツ 1944., 1944. Gouache/Watercolour. pic.twitter.com/e9vt52QjXu
— Two Rivers Gallery (@tworiversart) July 17, 2020
We don’t wanna be the butt of any jokes this #CURATORBATTLE, cause our entry is pants. Literally. ?
With no #BestMuseumBum, here’s the closest thing! Part of some 3,500 year old underpants, excavated in Thebes & made to protect your ?
Can you spot them on the tomb paintings? pic.twitter.com/FLsctrfqXg
— National Leather Collection (@museumofleather) June 26, 2020
No shortage of #BestMuseumBum options from the Gardens of Castle Howard. #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/CUwLTjuR6x
— Castle Howard (@CastleHowardEst) June 26, 2020
~Nouveau challenge~
Avez-vous entendu parler du #BestMuseumBum ?
Le plus beau postérieur est recherché dans les musées du monde entier…
Le meilleur est conservé au #museedesbeauxartsdecaen assurément ! pic.twitter.com/3BNXHiazZc— Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen (@mbacaen) August 26, 2020
#bestmuseumbum ? La Danaïde
© Agence photographique du musée Rodin – Jérome Manoukian pic.twitter.com/AMwDnCys1q— Musée Rodin (@MuseeRodinParis) August 26, 2020
We don’t have any human bums in the collection… but surely a St. Bernard study by dog artist Edwin Megargee has a shot at being #BestMuseumBum? #CURATORBATTLE https://t.co/DPNlwCyYhX pic.twitter.com/kHrPrqpmM0
— AKC Museum of the Dog (@akcMOD) July 1, 2020
#BestMuseumBum Ercole e Caco, piazza della Signoria, Firenze, Italia. Une belle paire de fesse entre beaucoup d’autres, devant les musées italiens ! Hercule et Cacus, Florence. pic.twitter.com/vt5vv4MifS
— nev (@eve010101) August 16, 2020
This August, show us your favorite butts in the CMA collection ?. C’mon down to the museum to ? your pick for #BestMuseumBum
Reserve your Free Sunday ?ᄌマ (& learn about our safety protocols): https://t.co/MHnCTrdhsc
(detail of Lewis deSoto’s Paranirvana ? by Mindy Galik pic.twitter.com/9AY5L0go8N— Columbus Museum Art (@columbusmuseum) August 9, 2020
Esculmaux, ARSON Sculptures Gordes @ArsonSculpture https://t.co/nhOL2yTYjW #arsonsculpturesgordes #conceptual pic.twitter.com/CrRy0Tu0ln
— Art Now France (@art_now_france) December 29, 2019
Excuse us, could we still wiggle into the #CURATORBATTLE, please? Our late entry for the #BestMuseumBum… pic.twitter.com/Xv9TwF238K
— Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (@bristolmuseum) June 26, 2020
This pimply bottom has historically been restored with pins so their cheek doesn’t droop! ?゚ムヘ?ᄌマ?
This #MuseumBun stood out from the #BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE bums and was shared by @statuomaniaque from @museesdijon ? pic.twitter.com/9EJpHwk1lI
— MuseumBums ?゚マロ️? (@museumbums) July 6, 2020
Seguint el challenge de @YorkshireMuseum
Per nosaltres aquest “Nu femení” de Ramon Casas és mereixedor de guanyar el #BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE #Sitges #CauFerrat #Casas @CulturaDIBA @AjSitges #Modernisme @cultura_cat @IcomEsp pic.twitter.com/UP2QJYybFl— Museus de Sitges (@MuseusDeSitges) July 25, 2020
#BestMuseumBum
Animal shaped vase, inlaid with gold and silver. Song Dynasty, CE9-11c.
金銀錯獣形尊(北宋) pic.twitter.com/J5KrFva7XJ— 泉屋博古館@「瑞獣伝来」展開催中 (@SenOkuKyoto) July 11, 2020
Museums all over the world are competing over which museum has the #BestMuseumBum in its collection. Undoubtedly we have the best designer butt! #PhilipsbyAlessi #AlessandroMendini #coffeemaker #CuratorBattle pic.twitter.com/zSX60B4I0e
— Design Museum Gent (@DesignMuseumBE) July 8, 2020
Beh, non possiamo non partecipare al #bestmuseumbum. Anzi, siamo sicuri di avere la vittoria in tasca 😉
Presentiamo il lato b di Cartilio Poplicola, influente cittadino di Ostia che ci ha lasciato una statua di sé in nudità eroica dedicata nel Tempio di Ercole. pic.twitter.com/Mw8oGgiQtL— parco_archeo_ostia (@parcostiantica) September 17, 2020
#BestMuseumBum
Accettiamo la sfida di @SOCIALnetbest, che prende spunto dall’iniziativa del @YorkshireMuseum: qual è il fondo schiena più bello della storia dell’arte?
Avete uno preferito nella nostra collezione?
Marte. Scala dei Giganti, #JacopoSansovino,1567.Ph. M. Listri
↓ pic.twitter.com/zeYSP3sGua— DucaleVenezia (@DucaleVenezia) September 17, 2020