Les musées autour du monde cherchent les plus belles fesses de l’histoire de l’art
Marie-Hélène Racine-Lacroix
Les conservateurs de musée à travers le monde se sont lancés dans une bataille importante sur Twitter, tentant de répondre à une question particulièrement pertinente.
Qui a les plus belles fesses dans son musée?
Avec la pandémie, plusieurs musées sont fermés et nous, triste public, sommes privés des grands popotins de l’histoire de l’art.
Le #CuratorBattle a commencé en avril, mais c'est le thème lancé par le musée Yorkshire le 26 juin dernier, #BestMuseumBum, qui a enflammé le web.
IT’S TIME FOR #CURATORBATTLE!💥
— Yorkshire Museum (@YorkshireMuseum) June 26, 2020
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
Le défi est inclusif à toutes sortes de derrières, en passant par toutes les époques, les médiums artistiques et même les espèces auxquels appartiennent ces fesses.
Voici nos préférés, sans ordre particulier.
Au Sac de chips, nous craquons pour tous les popotins:
We raise your athlete and instead give you the bum of a drunken fish. Yes you heard me.
— York Art Gallery (@YorkArtGallery) June 26, 2020
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
I'm 5 days late, but I have to put in an honorable mention for an old friend I photographed on her retirement and arrival the @casciencecenter back in 2012. Endeavour's bum may not be the prettiest, but it's stupendous. #BestMuseumBum pic.twitter.com/iqg10Rq50v
— Ellen 💜🏳️🌈 (@TrakenTourist) July 14, 2020
#BestMuseumBum #CuratorBattle @YorkshireMuseum
— M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (@CiurlionisMus) July 1, 2020
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
In honour of #NIW2020 we submit the Bumblebee (Bombus sp.) for this weeks #CURATORBATTLE #bestmuseumbum though floofiest (technical term) bum must surely go to the Bee Hawkmoth (Hemaris tityus) #EntoAtHome #insects #minibeasts pic.twitter.com/zRNj2NBkNz
— Grant Museum of Zoology (@GrantMuseum) June 26, 2020
Our #BestMuseumBum is this one ! 🍑
— Louvre-Lens (@MuseeLouvreLens) July 21, 2020
To discover in the Galerie du temps...
Hermaphroditos, roman copy romain from "Sleeping Hermaphroditos"
Circa 130-150 centuries BC
Marble@MuseeLouvreLens
Pope Pie VI (1775-1778) collection
© @GrandPalaisRmn /Hervé Lewandowski#CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/0rqBzu15vf
#BestMuseumBum Photos by BIRON • le musée du Louvre pic.twitter.com/mFWSDlW9tZ
— Photos by BIRON (@lbiron) July 20, 2020
For today’s #CURATORBATTLE (or perhaps #CURATORREBUTTAL?) theme of #BestMuseumBum, we present Hercules knocking it out of the park...
— Wallace Collection (@WallaceMuseum) June 26, 2020
A work by the goldsmith Francesco Pomarano, this boxwood statuette was already a celebrated piece in the #sixteenthcentury.#WallaceFromHome pic.twitter.com/3LoD6JkIOa
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We're wired for the #BestMuseumBum #curatorbattle "First Dance," out of electrical wire, is a self-portrait by Stanley Wright commemorating the moment he first felt music stirring him to the core. He was 54. He then danced for the first time as well & let it ALL go. #electric pic.twitter.com/423xYqvytU
— AmVisionaryArtMuseum (@TheAVAM) July 10, 2020
"You can look but you can't touch it
— Museum of Oxford (@MuseumofOxford) June 26, 2020
If you touch it
I'm a start some drama."
This sentiment was sadly ignored in the case of this figure.
You see the shiny, flattened 🍑?
That's because people couldn't resist touching her hump (hump). 🙄#BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/7Pb0hZJRZI
We have the #BestMuseumBum !🍑 #tattoo #tatooartist
— musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (@quaibranly) July 11, 2020
Moulage en silicone d'un dos masculin tatoué.
Motif inspiré de la tradition japonaise du théâtre nô.
Artiste : Filip Leu (2018). Collections du @quaibranly
© musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Claude Germain pic.twitter.com/i0ZDBqvp8h
Dans le cadre du challenge #BestMuseumBum , les derrières de MES #sculptures, bien sûr ! "Cant Be Nice All The Time" (2) #Bronze pic.twitter.com/O9FUKiYlUF
— Anne Mourat (@AnneDeDakar) July 21, 2020
“Museums battle for the #BestMuseumBum!” avec le musée des #artsetmétiers et @museumbums pic.twitter.com/DlTLcVL0AM
— MuséedesArtsMétiers (@ArtsetMetiers) July 8, 2020
💥 #BestMuseumBum themed #CURATORBATTLE today💥
— The Mary Rose (@MaryRoseMuseum) June 26, 2020
The Cowdray Engraving shows the sinking of the Mary Rose during the Battle of the Solent. Turns out is also shows a lot of Tudor bums!
Our top pick is this sassy gentleman by @Southsea_Castle, he knows he's rocking his breeches! pic.twitter.com/18wgio1bKl
Same derriere, different decade
— Royal Armouries (@Royal_Armouries) June 26, 2020
You can track Henry VIII's burgeoning bottom through our collection of his combat armours. The Tudor tubster went from a modest 32in waist in 1520 to a whopping 51in booty by 1540.
A 60% increase in trunk junk 🍑 pic.twitter.com/vpx9mQyCpA
Oh butt you haven't seen ours yet. We thought we'd take a crack at this week's #CURATORBATTLE with these peaches @AngleseyAbbey #BestMuseumBum. We can confirm that bottom dusting is an important part of our conservation work. pic.twitter.com/U5LZITXWPp
— National Trust in the East (@East_England_NT) June 26, 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
St Michael (battling the devil)'s bottom - [UCL Main library] #bestmuseumbum #CURATORBATTLE [pic taking this morning whilst staffing our temporary serving desk] pic.twitter.com/0J0SsWvnv6
— Magali (@MAntheaume) July 1, 2020
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We don't think you can beat these two floofy butts, courtesy of rabbits Tommy and Bella in the Animal Walk 🐇🐰 #BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/sSjWJFjBXz
— Horniman Museum and Gardens (@HornimanMuseum) June 29, 2020
Imagine getting this in the mail! #BestMuseumBum #CuratorBattle #MuseumfromHome pic.twitter.com/gbaSdo9TGV
— Cape Fear Museum (@capefearmuseum) June 26, 2020
You want bums? We've got some bums! We'll start with this "Humorous Cards" because object titles can be hard, but wordplay is always fun. 🍑 #BestMuseumBum#CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/C7vSTgWTHu
— East Riding Museums (@ERMuseums) June 26, 2020
#BestMuseumBum? Two for the price of one with the tessallated maenad posteriors of @BignorVilla #CURATORBATTLE!💥 pic.twitter.com/g2355J6E9r
— Durotriges Project (@Durotrigesdig) June 26, 2020
#BestMuseumBum? Two for the price of one with the tessallated maenad posteriors of @BignorVilla #CURATORBATTLE!💥 pic.twitter.com/g2355J6E9r
— Durotriges Project (@Durotrigesdig) June 26, 2020
Pour encore plus de fesses artistiques, le compte Twitter Museum Bums existe.
