In
fact curator of the exhibition, Catherine Lampert, has sat for him weekly for the past 37 years (9 October to 13 March).
Not exact matches
Much has been made
of his evasiveness,
of the
fact that he has spent his career flouting the art world's propriety: his continual refusal to settle on a dealer; the propensity to make himself unavailable to
curators even in the midst
of show preparations; to stage
exhibitions, performances, and installations with no prior announcement.
Matters
of Fact revisits a number
of key encounters from the institutional history
of the Hessel Museum
of Art: between collector and artist,
curator and
exhibition, art and art history.
So while New Image Painting may not change much in the tastes
of an art market that prefers its signifiers empty and flexible, the
fact remains that the
exhibition's authors — its
curators and, presumably, its artists — are taking the problems
of the market seriously as a cultural force.
[20] In artist and
curator Rasheed Araeen's «Postcript» to «The Other Story,» an
exhibition of artists
of African and Asian descent at the Hayward Gallery, London, 1989, Araeen writes, «[Anish] Kapoor, [Shirazeh] Houshiary and [Dhruva] Mistry, as well as Kim Lim and Veronica Ryan, were in
fact invited to participate but they declined.
Matters
of Fact revisits a number
of key encounters from the institutional history
of CCS Bard and the Marieluise Hessel Collection: between collector and artist,
curator and
exhibition, and art and art history.
Internationally renowned visual artist Shimon Attie discusses his evocative new monograph and concurrent
exhibition,
Facts on the Ground, with Norman Kleeblatt, Chief
Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York, and Maya Benton,
Curator at the International Center
of Photography.
Susan discusses her
exhibition «Social
Facts» at OGR Torino (until 24 June) with
curator of the exhibition, Barbara Casavecchia, and Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator of International Art (Film), o
curator of the
exhibition, Barbara Casavecchia, and Andrea Lissoni, Senior
Curator of International Art (Film), o
Curator of International Art (Film), on 4 May
These works, selected by Pfeiffer and the
exhibition's
curator, explore the theme
of the artist as editor, one who plays with space and time and, in doing so, creates new narratives that blur the line between
fact and fiction.
Matters
of Fact Hessel Museum
of Art March 18 — May 27 Matters
of Fact revisits a number
of key encounters from the institutional history
of the Hessel Museum: between collector and artist,
curator and
exhibition, art and art history.
The three - day contemporary art event introduces emerging and established artists in China to an international audience
of collectors, museum
curators, art professionals and art lovers, while shining a light on the
fact that art is often best experienced in a thoughtfully curated gallery
exhibition.
According to gallery director Ralph Rugoff,
curator of the
exhibition, its title reflects the
fact that at various points during the show visitors will be expected to make decisions, «with those choices leading to quite dramatically different experiences».
In today's museum world, where competition for
exhibition space is escalating, emptying two large rooms, painting them black, and then posting a text instructing the viewer on how to perceive a black painting is an ambitious conceptual gesture — one that becomes even more commanding in view
of the
fact that the
exhibition's
curator, Stephanie Rosenthal, limited her checklist for the show to just four American male heavyweights who made black paintings between 1945 and 1965.
Demonstrating the importance
of the
exhibition, contemporary artist and
curator of the show Varvara Shavrova (USSR / Ireland / UK) notes: «What makes The Sea is the Limit a unique
exhibition is the
fact that each participating artist has been engaging with migration, immigration, dispossession and rootlessness for some years... Another strength lies in the
fact that most participating artists, including myself, are migrants.»
Curator Yasha Young shares, «This
exhibition addresses the
fact that art created by women has been historically dismissed as craft as opposed to fine art, affecting the development
of women in art throughout history.
In
fact, these artists can be easily located in a context which Fabo critiques (for example, it is easy to imagine any or all
of these three artists in Bruce Grenville's Active Surplus
exhibition at the Power Plant — Grenville being a
curator Fabo explicitly criticizes).
At first, the
fact that the
exhibition consisted entirely
of women artists seems to have been downplayed by the
curators, Britta E. Buhlmann and Annette Reich.