Museum as Retail Space

04/02/2020

Pluto Project’s inaugural live streaming exhibition of Laura Soto from 5-8pm on Tuesday April 7th. Website URL to be announced day of.

04/02/2020

Artists, Public, & Press:

Museum as Retail Space (MaRS) is to be reinstituted as Pluto Projects, an experimental streaming exhibition and silent auction platform. Pluto Projects website URL will be announced on Tuesday April, 7th, 2020 (the Full Pink Super Moon) in conjunction with its inaugural exhibition by Laura Soto
The MaRS instagram handle has changed from “mars_gallery_la” to “pluto_projects”, but will keep posted documentation of the gallery’s past exhibitions.

Pluto Projects is an experimental exhibition format premised on the Public becoming plurally virtual and spatial, therefore changing the nature of the Intimate, and creating the need for a new architecture and ritual.
Exhibitions are streamed live from spaces of the artists choosing, and then broadcast in memoriam. They are plurally openings, exhibitions, performances, happenings, events, documentation, and singularities.
Pluto Projects will be supporting artists by facilitating silent auctions with designated windows of time in which an inquirer may bid on the offered works. The auction is "silent" in that there is no auctioneer selling individual items, and that the bids are private. The artist selects the bid of their choosing at end of the silent auction, and may pass on any and all bids. This model returns the agency to the artist, in which they may move their work on their terms.
Divisions of takings are made transparent for each silent auction, with the precedent custom to offer 80% to the artist. Founding shows of Pluto Projects will donate all proceeds beyond what is raised for the artist to COVID-19 aid.
Live streamed openings will be held three days a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Silent auction windows will be between one to three weeks long.
Pluto Projects will be able to program over 150 exhibitions annually, independently or in conjunction with other galleries, giving the ability to support many more artists with more frequency than a traditional gallery program. Programming both emerging and established artists, Pluto Projects will be cultivating an inclusive community within the art world.

04/01/2020

Artists, Public, & Press:

Museum as Retail Space (MaRS) is to be reinstituted as Pluto Projects, an experimental streaming exhibition and silent auction platform. Pluto Projects website URL will be announced on Tuesday April, 7th, 2020 (the Full Pink Super Moon) in conjunction with its inaugural exhibition by Laura Soto.

The MaRS instagram handle has changed from “mars_gallery_la” to “pluto_projects”, but will keep posted documentation of the gallery’s past exhibitions.

Pluto Projects is an experimental exhibition format premised on the Public becoming plurally virtual and spatial, therefore changing the nature of the Intimate, and creating the need for a new architecture and ritual.

Exhibitions are streamed live from spaces of the artists choosing, and then broadcast in memoriam. They are plurally openings, exhibitions, performances, happenings, events, documentation, and singularities.

Pluto Projects will be supporting artists by facilitating silent auctions with designated windows of time in which an inquirer may bid on the offered works. The auction is "silent" in that there is no auctioneer selling individual items, and that the bids are private. The artist selects the bid of their choosing at end of the silent auction, and may pass on any and all bids. This model returns the agency to the artist, in which they may move their work on their terms.

Divisions of takings are made transparent for each silent auction, with the precedent custom to offer 80% to the artist. Founding shows of Pluto Projects will donate all proceeds beyond what is raised for the artist to COVID-19 aid.

Live streamed openings will be held three days a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Silent auction windows will be between one to three weeks long. Pluto Projects will be able to program over 150 exhibitions annually, independently or in conjunction with other galleries, giving the ability to support many more artists with more frequency than a traditional gallery program.

03/14/2018

We have received an open letter in opposition of LAZAABB. We would like to provide you with our response, for your consideration:

"Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
~ William Blake, poet, painter, printmaker, and mystic.

This debate pivots around the fundamental belief of what exposure to the arts brings - does it bring disempowerment or empowerment?

There is an important difference between imposition and invitation within a cultural offering - it is our position that the organizers making demands to boycott our zine bazaar are practicing imposition rather than invitation, and are ironically promoting a culture of hate, which is not healthy for any community.

We believe that exposure to poetry, drawing, performance, and all forms of shared intimacy, is an invitation to explore the undiscovered potentials of ourselves, fostering human connection, healing, and sparking the imagination to wonder what is possible of our own lives. That is empowerment.

The attempt to cultivate independent cultural exchange should be defended rather than dismantled, and it is shameful to demand the restriction of expression and exposure to the arts, and arts education. Curtailing freedom of expression is a form of control and aggression. That is disempowerment.

We created the Los Angeles Zine and Art Book Bazaar to share our love of art and language, sensical and nonsensical, with the place we call home. It is our hope to invite empowerment for all the multi-faceted and magical communities of Los Angeles at LAZAABB.

With the belief that Art, Words, and Magic can all be one,
Robert and Josh

07/20/2017

Thank you Genie Davis for this review! Last week to see Lipschutz or Lipschutz.

Lipschutz or Lipschutz at MaRS By Genie Davis Through July 22nd   Through July 22nd at Museum as Retail Space the father and son duo of Jeff Lipschutz and Michael Lipschutz exhibit the eponymo…

06/30/2017

We are excited to be featured in LA Weekly, with a write up on our current exhibition "Lipschutz or Lipschutz" by Catherine Wagley.

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/five-free-art-shows-in-la-june-28-through-july-4-8360489

This week, an artist unveils a lighthouse in the desert and another finds inspiration in toilet seats. Family business The father-son team of Jeff and Mike Lipschutz go by Lipschutz & Lipschutz, the name intentionally resembling a family law or accounting firm. They wanted through their current exhi...

09/14/2016

Opening this Saturday, September 17th • Galia Linn and Elena Stonaker, "Rituals of Sphinx and Lamassu".

07/29/2016

Go support Jibade-Khalil at his performance and talk at LACE tonight 7-10 PM!
http://welcometolace.org/event/jibade-khalil-huffman-verse-chorus-verse/

07/15/2016

MaRS Update:
Museum as Retail Space is excited to extend the closing date of our current exhibition Marwa Abdul-Rahman’s “Open That S**t Wide Let Me See How Big Your Mouth Is”
to AUGUST 13th, 2016!

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 7:00pm
http://www.marsgallery.net/marwa-abdulrahman/

02/24/2016

Thanks L.A. Weekly for mentioning our current show 'The Night Brightens' by Marty Schnapf. The show is still up until March 5th!

This week, a former punk musician channels Pee-wee's Playhouse and a Berlin-based artist puts an eerie spin on playground equipment. Family resemblance For her current show at apartment gallery Park View, J. Parker Valentine excavated some of her late mother’s old source material and artwork. She pr…