When it comes to watching music in action, suddenly museums are the place to be. Yesterday on the show, we heard about three exhibits in New York museums that use music as a jumping-off point: Blues for Smoke at the Whitney, Street at the Met Museum, and a show at the New Museum called NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star, which takes its title from a Sonic Youth album.

But there’s another exhibition happening here in New York -- and it’s even more directly about the experience of watching music. It’s called Spectacle: The Music Video at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. It charts the evolution of the music video from its earliest days, to MTV to YouTube. Maura Johnston, who recently wrote about the show for her new app-based publication Maura magazine, joins us with a review.

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Included in the exhibit is this iconic video from director and music video auteur Michel Gondry, from 2001:

This kaleidoscopic video for The Chemical Brothers, which Michel Gondry directed in 1999, is also included in the exhibit. It plays in a mirrored room, creating a further kaleidoscope experience:

There are many examples of remix culture in the exhibit, including literal videos, which feature singing or narration that describes the on-screen action: