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    “(T)he art handlers marked various options on the wall, and I taped out approximately where the other paintings would hang. But as they lifted Watson up—it takes five people—and it rose past the lower line, I stopped them. It was clearly going to look too high. And then I realized that at the NGA it hangs on the wall all by itself, and it doesn’t matter how high it is there. Context is everything.”

    — Bruce Robertson, Consulting Curator, American Art at LACMA talking about hanging one of my all-times.



    Tags: John Singleton CopleyLACMACuration

    March 01, 2010, 11:18am  

    New magazine that I will lust over alert: The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands. I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.

    New magazine that I will lust over alert:

    The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.

    I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.



    Tags: CurationExhibitionsMagazine

    February 08, 2010, 2:37pm  

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    Such private-collector-centric “fluff shows” have proliferated this year, particularly in New York, where the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and New York University’s Grey Art Gallery have shown private collections. Most recently, the New Museum has announced its intention to create a series of such shows and has given it the bizarre title “The Imaginary Museum”. The New Museum’s initial “Imaginary Museum” show will be of the private collection of Dakis Joannou.

    These shows are unethical, improper and raise questions about the museums’ adherence to guidelines the US government lays down for non-profit institutions. (It is important to note that I’m criticising only exhibitions of private collections, not exhibitions of works donated to museums by collectors.) I’m especially disappointed that the New Museum has planned such a poorly considered show and series. It has a unique history as a feminist-created, experiment-driven, alternative space. Its decision to exhibit private collections turns the museum from a kunsthalle into a vanity space.

    ”

    — Tyler Green on the New Museum business and other museum’s programming decisisons.



    Tags: New MuseumEthicsCurationTyler Green

    November 19, 2009, 3:27pm  

    Robin Rhode Monument to the Chairman 2008 I am very excited about this exhibition that is coming up at LACMA next year. I’m also curious as to how the curation is going to play out now that Charlotte Cotton is gone and that new chick is there…Curious indeed.

    Robin Rhode Monument to the Chairman 2008

    I am very excited about this exhibition that is coming up at LACMA next year.

    I’m also curious as to how the curation is going to play out now that Charlotte Cotton is gone and that new chick is there…Curious indeed.



    Tags: Robin RhodeartLACMACuration

    September 29, 2009, 2:00pm  

    Rock and Roll Fantasy.” Sound like a course you’d want to take? Last winter, a lucky handful of students at SCI-Arc—a legendary school of architecture and design in downtown L.A.—got the chance. They were tasked with project that would turn any architecture student a sickly green with envy: Designing a party pavilion that’ll debut at Coachella, the hipster music festival, being headlined this year by Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, M.I.A., and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs…The course was taught by three principals at Ball-Nogues—Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues, and Andrew Lyon—with directives from  Coachella’s art curator, Philip Blaine. Ball-Nogues knows temporary party spaces, they cut their teeth with an award-winning vortex of golden scales, and went on to design a few more: An outdoor installation at P.S.1. via… I can’t wait to see this next weekend! Hopefully I will be able to get some photos of it’s installation so we can see the progression.  Anyone remember when I was so lost I was pretty sure I wasn’t in LA anymore? I was on the midterm for this class so I could help choose the piece.  While I am sad that I didn’t get to see it while trying to get back from wherever I was, it looks like they really used their good decision making skills(and a little of my tastes that have rubbed off on not-so-innocent bystanders).

    Rock and Roll Fantasy.” Sound like a course you’d want to take? Last winter, a lucky handful of students at SCI-Arc—a legendary school of architecture and design in downtown L.A.—got the chance. They were tasked with project that would turn any architecture student a sickly green with envy: Designing a party pavilion that’ll debut at Coachella, the hipster music festival, being headlined this year by Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, M.I.A., and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs…The course was taught by three principals at Ball-Nogues—Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues, and Andrew Lyon—with directives from  Coachella’s art curator, Philip Blaine. Ball-Nogues knows temporary party spaces, they cut their teeth with an award-winning vortex of golden scales, and went on to design a few more: An outdoor installation at P.S.1. via…

    I can’t wait to see this next weekend! Hopefully I will be able to get some photos of it’s installation so we can see the progression. 

    Anyone remember when I was so lost I was pretty sure I wasn’t in LA anymore? I was on the midterm for this class so I could help choose the piece.  While I am sad that I didn’t get to see it while trying to get back from wherever I was, it looks like they really used their good decision making skills(and a little of my tastes that have rubbed off on not-so-innocent bystanders).



    Tags: cultureArtCoachellaCurationPhilip blaine

    April 09, 2009, 12:30pm