April 17, 2013
An older man in Muscatine, Iowa decides to paint his kitchen windowsill. At the local hardware store he peruses paint chips and finds one that matches his house. It is named ‘Palo Alto’. He asks the young lady at the counter to mix a quart for him. As she mixes the paint, the young lady tells the man a story that her boyfriend had recently told her . She tells…
April 17, 2013
Let’s collaborate in a complicated matter so that things get in a muddle. The only remaining idea will be the project itself, for the sake of it’s latest updated version. In 1994 the VERSION exhibition context started off by organizing events in the hybrid field of art and technologies. 9 shows later, VERSION produced a new type of museum. Actually i don’t know yet how we can define this…
April 17, 2013
Artists :Anthony Discenza, Nina Katchadourian, Luisa Kazanas, Rachael Neubauer, Philip Ross, and IMAGE Yoram Wolberger CONFESSIONS OF A PROMISCUOUS MUSE: THE LINEAMENTS OF GRATIFIED DESIRE Marcia Tanner THE QUESTION ANSWERED What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. -William Blake I came to curating late in life, a Grandma Moses among…
April 17, 2013
Forgot I forgot to mention that little notice that came in the mail? You’ve been evicted and now you have to live in Fremont. And I forgot to tell you there are lilies climbing up the chimney, choking on the pollen, each one with a little face that whispers, “Murder” Well, I forgot to tell you that when the master is talking what matters is that the cotton is pure…
April 17, 2013
I used to have a place where I’d go when I was a TEENAGER, down past the south end of town, where the last development gave out to a broad swath of PASTURE that sloped up steeply to the edge of the WOODS. We’d go there and hike around, wonder at the huge trees and ancient cliffs, imagining indians or stage coaches rushing by. If it was NIGHT we’d…
April 17, 2013
All or nothing at all. As in love, so in art. An empty gallery, painted white, like the one Yves Klein created for Galerie Iris Clert in Paris in1958. Or one of those grand salons, paintings hung up the wall, stacked row above row until they reach the sky. I recently visited Boston, where, as usual, I haunted the Museum of Fine Arts, the place I received my education…
April 17, 2013
THE CURATOR AS PRODUCER Curatorial dreams can start as a fairy tale: Once upon a time, there was a beautiful piece of nature, at the foot of the Bavarian Alps, a work of art in its own right. One day a young king discovered and claimed it. He asked several artists, most of them not architects but scenographers, to design the epitome of a castle for him, a dream of…
April 17, 2013
Museum— Works of art are always there and people are coming in and going out. Their various thoughts, private interests and views about a work, are always wavering. Permitting them, I dream of the [MUSEUM] to be appearing —a place redefined by our own necessity. Museum is public, educational and authentic place , which has some functions to inform audience how to see the works, the history of…
April 17, 2013
“Do art exhibitions regularly leave you feeling tired, listless, or uninspired? Have you ever felt as if the work on display had no interest in engaging your intelligence or even acknowledging your presence? Do you often feel lonelier and less connected after such encounters? “If you have endured any of these unpleasant symptoms, don’t despair. There is an alternative. For more information call 1-800 . . . ”…
April 16, 2013
“Art itself possesses no type of social impact. It is its contextualisation which gives it its power.” Lucy Lippard realUNreal is an exhibition of nine curators asked to draw a line between the real and unreal politics of the gallery; to negotiate the space between art and image, image and text, text and idea, idea and art. It is an exhibition without artwork. It asks these curators, including writers,…