For my second ARTM event I decided to go see the new exhibit at the Gibbes Museum called Photography and the American Civil War. The exhibit opened September 27th. and will conclude on January 5th. The photographer of the entire exhibit was a man named Matthew B. Brady, according to the wall mounts their were not too many people taking pictures at this time. I thought parts of the exhibit was extremely gory. Some of the photos were very cool though, they had some landscapes of just rubble and battlefields and those I thought were somehow pleasant in there chaos, like the calm after the battle has finally set in. However, there was an entire room dedicated to what looked like  pictures of wounded soldiers and medical procedures, its like they were keeping a record. Pretty gruesome.

I thought that going to the Gibbes would be a good call for this art event. All of the examples of non profits we have been talking about in class have been  big museums in New York, most of which I have been to, but then I realized I had never been to the “big” museum in Charleston. The Gibbes is also an institution with a lot of moving parts, curators and management and a full staff. It doesn’t strike me as the type of museum where people are doing two different jobs which is another aspect we have addressed in class, a full staff.

I would recommend this to anyone really. The black and whites were really cool. The old newspapers were very cool too. They had rewards for signing up for war and bounty out on people heads. I would avoid the room with all the gore, no one needs that in their life.