Not exact matches
The catalogue includes entries by the
exhibition's
organizer, Assistant Curator Thomas J. Lax, along with leading scholars Horace Ballard, Katherine Jentleson, Scott Romine and Lowery Stokes Sims,
who write on notions
of spirituality, the ethics
of self - taught art and the idea
of the South in the American project.
Tapié was also a curator and
exhibition organizer who promoted the works
of Pollock and Hans Hofmann in Europe.
I eagerly emailed with the
exhibition's
organizer, Gwen Chanzit,
who serves as curator
of modern and contemporary art and
of the Herbert Bayer Collection & Archive at DAM, to ask her a few questions in anticipation.
The
organizers of the
exhibition are Nora Lawrence, Senior Curator; David Collens, Director and Chief Curator; and Sarah Diver, Curatorial Assistant,
who collaborated closely with artists to develop their ideas and proposed projects for the
exhibition.
The subsequent rejection
of Duchamp's Fountain by the
exhibition's
organizers ignited a controversy that continues today about the definition
of art and
who gets to pass judgment.
At MoMA, too, the
exhibition has become what its
organizers call an «open monographic» one, meaning that, at certain points as it recounts the history
of the evolution
of Rauschenberg's art and ideas, it branches off and pays special - focus attention to projects he undertook with various collaborators or to the work and thinking
of other artists
who influenced or inspired him.
In 1959, Rothko,
who was
of Russian Jewish descent, invited to participate in the Documenta
exhibition in Kassel, Germany, proposed the creation
of a chapel
of expiation offering to paint works for it for free, but an agreement with the
organizers was never achieved.
While the
exhibition's
organizers, a group
of artists led by Walt Kuhn and Arthur B. Davies, aimed to show off the talents
of the most radical American artists,
who were mostly realists, the unexpected outcome
of the show was a virtual hijacking
of the headlines by the European avant - garde.
We owe a debt
of gratitude to the
organizers and managers
of this most successful
exhibition, and, in passing, let us extend our condolences to Gutzon Borglum and Leon Dabo,
who, after all, were the chief promoters
of an event in whose triumphal result, for temperamental reasons, they were unable to participate.
Like the show
of private - collection work, it is overcrowded, but it's hard to begrudge the
organizers — Stacy C. Hollander, the museum's chief curator and director
of exhibitions, and Valérie Rousseau, its curator
of art
of the self - taught and art brut —
who clearly, and understandably, wanted to get as much work on the walls as possible.
The award for best national pavilion went to Armenia, whose
exhibition, «Armenity,» featured a group
of artists from the Armenian diaspora
who, as
organizers of the show wrote, are «grandchildren
of survivors
of the Armenian Genocide — the first genocide
of the 20th century» and builders
of «a «transnational assembly» from the remnants
of a shattered identity.»
Bochner —
who has produced paintings, installations, and photography — is noted to be one
of the most influential pioneers
of Conceptual art, and the
organizer of the first Conceptual art
exhibition in 1966.
The photo series «Looks Like a Landscape» was made in resistance to the biennale
organizers,
who had rejected Liu's earlier proposal
of a large - scale installation that he had wanted to make with artists
who had not been invited to participate in the biennale
exhibition.
Though Fuchs's enthusiasms never went viral in the way the
exhibition's
organizers had hoped, there have been occasional international champions
of the artist since then — most notably Thomas Crow,
who has recently placed McCahon's work, alongside that
of Sister Corita Kent, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, and
I want to thank our colleagues at Deutsche Bank and my colleague Liz Christiansen
who's here
who are the
organizers of this
exhibition with us.