{"id":24671,"date":"2014-07-14T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=24671"},"modified":"2014-07-14T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:15:20","slug":"museum-hours-by-jem-cohen-art-life-mystery-iris-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/07\/14\/museum-hours-by-jem-cohen-art-life-mystery-iris-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Hours by Jem Cohen &#8211; Art, Life &#038; Mystery &#038; Iris Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artmuseum_hours_composite_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artmuseum_hours_composite_edit.jpg\" alt=\"1artmuseum_hours_composite_edit\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artmuseum_hours_composite_edit.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artmuseum_hours_composite_edit-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRembrant Born: July 15, 1606<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wp79a2A3BuM&#038;feature=kp\">Museum Hours <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artMuseumhours.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artMuseumhours-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"1artMuseumhours\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artMuseumhours-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artMuseumhours.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> (click to see large) <\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wp79a2A3BuM&#038;feature=kp\">Museum Hours <\/a> trailer on youtube. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/28\/movies\/jem-cohens-museum-hours-explores-links-of-life-and-art.html?_r=0\">Old masters, sweet mystery<\/a> &#8211; A.O Scott <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMuseum Hours,\u201d Jem Cohen\u2019s quietly amazing, sneakily sublime new film, is partly a reflection on such aesthetic puzzles. Shot on high-definition digital video and super-16-millimeter film in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the film lingers over great paintings by Rembrandt, Bruegel and other European masters, inviting us to contemplate the complex, half-obscured tales they might tell. In one scene, an art historian (Ela Piplits) tries to initiate a crowd of skeptical tourists into the mysteries of Bruegel\u2019s \u201cConversion of St. Paul\u201d (1567), and Mr. Cohen\u2019s camera supports her arguments by finding details in the picture that might be easy to overlook. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jem_Cohen\">Jem Cohen <\/a> directed the museum hours. <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artirisMurdoch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artirisMurdoch.jpg\" alt=\"1artirisMurdoch\" width=\"540\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artirisMurdoch.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1artirisMurdoch-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iris Murdoch was born on  15 July 1919<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/07\/14\/walter-benjamin-iris-derrida\/\">Walter Benjamin, Iris and Derrida <\/a> (previous post) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUntil the escape into art, then nature,<br \/>\nthe stories are dark, dark, dark.<br \/>\nParsifal with no Grail.<br \/>\nIsolde with no Death.<br \/>\nPapageno with no flute.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/07\/17\/summer-interlude-iris-murdoch-and-jacques-derrida\/\">Summer Interlude &#8211; Iris and Derrida <\/a><br \/>\n\u201cMurdoch\u2019s implicit philosophical position is austere, classical, rigorous: unromantic, and pessimistic. Not that pessimism precludes comedy: on the contrary, it is probably the basis of the comic spirit.<\/p>\n<p>See  Ingrid <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/1Italy1.jpg\" alt=\"1Italy\" title=\"1Italy\" width=\"416\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/1Italy1.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/1Italy1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/> Bergman at the museum, looking at the sculpture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/05\/23\/viaggio-in-italia\/\"> Viaggio In Italia <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rembrant Born: July 15, 1606 Museum Hours (click to see large) Museum Hours trailer on youtube. Old masters, sweet mystery &#8211; A.O Scott \u201cMuseum Hours,\u201d Jem Cohen\u2019s quietly amazing, sneakily sublime new film, is partly a reflection on such aesthetic puzzles. Shot on high-definition digital video and super-16-millimeter film in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/07\/14\/museum-hours-by-jem-cohen-art-life-mystery-iris-murdoch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Museum Hours by Jem Cohen &#8211; Art, Life &#038; Mystery &#038; Iris Murdoch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,1,14,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-culture","category-philosophypsychology","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}