This Friday, June 12 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm the Regional Arts Commission is hosting a Tweet-up in conjunction with its opening of its Time Well Spent exhibition, followed by an afterparty at Eclipse, the rooftop bar at the new Moonrise hotel. As far as I know, this is the first visual arts event in St. Louis that directly incorporates Twitter and social media–and although I tweet (@kemperartmuseum) old-school, from my desktop instead of some fancy-pants mobile device, I am still curious to see how this will work and what the audience interaction will bring to the event.
RAC has also provided a handy tool on its website called Arts Tweet St. Louis, a rolling compendium of tweets from arts organizations around town, and a great way for those unfamiliar with Twitter to “dip your toes in,” so to speak, given the ability to follow some tweets and see what the tool is all about without even having to sign-up and login to an individual account.
As always you can find a whole lineup of more local arts events coming up this weekend through RAC’s ArtsZipper calendar; but, if you do happen to be on this end of town please feel free to stop by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, which is just around the corner from RAC and the Delmar loop, and open until 8 pm on Fridays. In addition to the permanent collection gallery we have two special exhibitions on display, including the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija called Chew the Fat — a video installation featuring interviews between Tiravanija and a dozen of his prominent artist friends. For a preview you can watch the video trailer on our YouTube channel, or read a recent interview excerpt between Tiravanija and Yoko Ono published in Artforum.
Please feel free to leave any of your suggestions for upcoming arts events in the comments…