What Makes a Great Exhibition?
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What Makes a Great Exhibition?

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What Makes a Great Exhibition?

About this book

For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in "blockbuster" exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswered question stands out: "What makes a great exhibition?" Some of the world's leading curators and art historians try to answer this question here, as they examine the elements of a museum exhibition from every angle.

What Makes a Great Exhibition? investigates the challenges facing American and European contemporary art in particular, exploring such issues as group exhibitions, video and craft, and the ways that architecture influences the nature of the exhibitions under its roof. The distinguished contributors address diverse topics, including Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden's examination of ethnically-focused exhibitions; and Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale and formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, on the meaning of "exhibition and "exhibitionmaker."

A thought-provoking volume on the practice of curatorial work and the mission of modern museums, What Makes A Great Exhibition? will be indispensable reading for all art professionals and scholars working today.

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Information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780970834614
eBook ISBN
9781780234861
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Art General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Practice Makes Perfect PAULA MARINCOLA
  6. Show and Tell ROBERT STORR
  7. In Lieu of Higher Ground LYNNE COOKE
  8. You Talking To Me? On Curating Group Shows that Give You a Chance to Join the Group RALPH RUGOFF
  9. The Unstable Institution CARLOS BASUALDO
  10. With Our Faces to the Rising Sun THELMA GOLDEN WITH GLENN LIGON
  11. Mies’s New National Gallery: Empty and Full DETLEF MERTINS
  12. Design and Architecture PAOLA ANTONELLI INTERVIEWED BY BENNETT SIMPSON
  13. Who’s afraid of gift-wrapped kazoos? JEFFREY KIPNIS
  14. Handy-Crafts: A Doctrine GLENN ADAMSON
  15. Temple/White Cube/Laboratory IWONA BLAZWICK
  16. Making Space for Art MARY JANE JACOB
  17. Questions of Practice MARK NASH
  18. Wall Text INGRID SCHAFFNER
  19. Afterword MARIAN GODFREY
  20. Acknowledgments PAULA MARINCOLA
  21. Contributors
  22. Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Exhibition Grant Recipients 1998–2009
  23. Index
  24. Addenda/Errata