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The Philadelphia Museum of Art ranks among the five largest art museums in the United States; its encyclopedic collection of approximately 300,000 objects represents more than 2,000 years of artistic achievement in Asia, Europe, and the United States. The Philadelphia Museum of Art's broad mission is to hold and preserve its collections in public trust for future generations and to enhance and extend the reach of its collections to an increasingly large and diverse audience from the Philadelphia region, the country, and around the world. The Museum carries out its mission through conservation, installation, publication, and interpretation of its collections, through special exhibitions, and through a wide variety of educational programs. In 1993, the Philadelphia Museum of Art initiated Museum Studies, an ongoing series of projects by contemporary artists, in which artists are invited to create projects in direct response to the Museum context, including its collections, building, history, and audience. "Museum Studies #4: Rirkrit Tiravanija", and "Museum Studies #5: Gabriel Orozco" both involve the subject of cultural exchange. Tiravanija's project, a cross-country trip with five Thai college students to quintessentially American sites, is documented by a CD-ROM. Orozco has selected an object from the Museum's collection as a focal point for an installation of new work resulting from his journey of several months in its place of origin.
Exhibition Dates: MS/4: April 1st through May 15th, 1998 For more information: www.philamuseum.org |
