Sentences with phrase «too good a curator»

But Hoptman is too good a curator, with too much integrity, to ever follow the whims of the market.

Not exact matches

The curators, Jennifer Burris and Park McArthur, include too few works on paper and too much memorabilia as well.

-LSB-...] «Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».

He will have had good advice, too: at Monday night's ceremony he was hand - in - hand with a Tate curator who has overseen previous Turner prize exhibitions; one of this year's judges, Daniel Birnbaum, is a colleague at the Frankfurt art school where he teaches.

An artist himself as well as a DJ, curator, writer, publisher, and former Turner Prize judge (in 2007), he has also for the past five years served as the creative advisor of the Independent art fair, using that platform as an opportunity to introduce a broad range of creativity into the traditionally staid, too - often straitjacketed art - fair format.

Despite the curators» good intentions and the desire to decentralize the discourse of art, this perspective was too reductive.

From 2003 until 2011 he was a curator at the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), where he organized large - scale group exhibitions as well as monographic shows, including Emotion Pictures (2005); Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver (2005); The Order of Things (2008); Auguste Orts: Correspondence (2010); Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner — A Syntax of Dependency (2011); A Rua: The Spirit of Rio de Janeiro (2011); Chantal Akerman: Too Close, Too Far (2012) and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art (2006), The Projection Project (2007), All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (2009), and Kerry James Marshall: Paintings and Other Stuff (2013).

So while a video like Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc's An Italian Film (Africa Addio)(2012), in which a Yorkshire foundry reenacts the nineteenth - century colonial - era melting and recasting of looted Congolese copper treasures, is perhaps an obvious one to include, it nonetheless keeps the curators» narrative ticking over without, for better or worse, too many tangents for the viewer to get lost among.

When Roberta Smith worried about too many spare installations, she worried about a new paradigm, but curators good and bad alike are making do with less.

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.

Then came the inevitable backlash, the published lists of those neglected, the complaints about the ones chosen: that there aren't enough young and hip artists, that there is too much painting and not enough Conceptual and political art, that some artists are too well known, others are completely unknown and a few are just friends of the exhibition's curator, Klaus Kertess.

Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».

Alexander Hertling of Balice Hertling (Paris) found the whole experience «very positive: we sold to both new and old contacts and had a good reaction from curators and writers too.»