What makes a great exhibition? /
Publication details: Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage ; Chicago, IL : Distributed for Reaktion Books in the USA and Canada by the University of Chicago Press, ©2006.Description: 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0970834616
- 9780970834614
- Half title: Questions of practice
- N4395 .W47 2006
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | N 4395 WHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0008435 |
"A list of questions leading to more questions and some answers" written and compiled by Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Director Paula Marincola ([2] p.) inserted.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Practice makes perfect / Paula Marincola -- Show and tell / Robert Storr -- In lieu of higher ground / Lynne Cooke -- You talking to me? On curating group shows that give you a chance to join the group / Ralph Rugoff -- The unstable institution / Carlos Basualdo -- With our faces to the rising sun / Thelma Golden with Glenn Ligon -- Mies's new national gallery : empty and full / Detlef Mertins -- Design and architecture / Paola Antonelli interviewed by Bennett Simpson -- Who's afraid of gift-wrapped kazoos? / Jeffrey Kipnis -- Handy-crafts : a doctrine / Glenn Adamson -- Temple/White cube/Laboratory / Iwona Blazwick -- Making space for art / Mary Jane Jacob -- Questions of practice / Mark Nash -- Wall text / Ingrid Schaffner -- Afterword / Marian Godfrey -- Acknowledgments / Paula Marincola.
Fourteen essays by leading curators and art historians address the most pressing issues surrounding exhibition-making today. Contributors include Glenn Adamson, Iwona Blazwick, Lynne Cooke, Detlef Mertins, Mark Nash and Robert Storr.