Sentences with phrase «good curators always»

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«Artists always make the best curators,» she told him.

From her start at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the late 1980s to her assistant curator position at MoMA — where from 1995 to 2001 she oversaw the first American solo museum exhibitions for pathbreaking artists like Luc Tuymans and John Currin — Hoptman has remained steadfast in her belief that good paintings will always be relevant.

Not every mini-show succeeds equally well, not just because not every curator pulls it off, but also because the strategies do not always work so well.

The exhibitions, often organized by Starr Figura, a curator in the Prints and Drawings department, are always good.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.

Smith, who used «taunting» to describe Levine's acts of emergence — well - chronicled outright appropriations, such as rephotographing Walker Evans and being chased by Getty curators and lawsuits — is right that Levine has always been a provocateur.

Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, commented: «Frieze is my favorite art fair; it is well - curated and always legible.

We contacted Brazilian artists and curators whom we already knew and asked them to introduce us to the Brazilian art world, and then we met critics, independent curators, museum curators, journalists, editors of magazines, residency programme managers, academics, art lovers, gallerists and collectors, always asking the same questions on our quest to find the best of the new generation of young artists who are emerging in the Brazilian art world.

About Jan's work, artist, curator and writer Michelle Grabner states, ``... his paintings expand the best of contemporary non-objective work in their shear boldness and fearless scope, the entirety of the painting's dynamics are always greater than the architecture that supports them... The impact of van der Ploeg's paintings is located at the intersection of sensation and thought, between the work's graphic visual impact and its conceptual underpinnings.

Always in search of new talents, he is an active art consultant and curator in South Asia, notably Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as in the Middle East.

«The best dealers are nearly always ahead of the best curator.

No stranger to controversy, Rosenthal talks us through his views on restitution and commerce («the best dealers are nearly always ahead of the best curator.

The decision by a respected institution to stake a claim on an artist almost always produces a copycat effect, as curators at other museums, as well as collectors, art advisers and auction houses, take note.

Coupled with a catalogue featuring essays by the curators as well as by Thomas Crow, David Joselit, Maria Loh, and Howard Singerman, this show will no doubt attest to the emotional resonance, historical insight, and exceptional taste that have always characterized Levine's work.

When it came to paintings, sculpture and drawings too, the Andersons seem to have thought like museum curators, although they say their concern has always been only to acquire the best.

Nathalie Du Pasquier, BIG OBJECTS NOT ALWAYS SILENT is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-produced by ICA and Kunsthalle Wien, which is published by Sternberg Press and features an extensive conversation with Nathalie Du Pasquier and curator Luca Lo Pinto, as well as short essays by Andrew Ayers, Dafne Boggeri, Barbara Radice, Steve Piccolo, and Lodovico Pignatti Morano.

Rumor has it the selection of work can become contentious among the membership, but the result is always a well - honed distillation, with divergent art finding new connections — aided by a curator who knows how to hang art within the Academy's rambling rooms on its beaux - arts campus of Audubon Terrace.

About van der Ploeg's work, artist and curator Michelle Grabner writes, ``... his paintings expand the best of contemporary non-objective work in their shear boldness and fearless scope, the entirety of the painting's dynamics are always greater than the architecture that supports them... The impact of van der Ploeg's paintings is located at the intersection of sensation and thought, between the work's graphic visual impact and its conceptual underpinnings.