Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Philadelphia Center for Arts & Heritage “QUESTIONS OF PRACTICE: WHAT MAKES A GREAT EXHIBITION?” With contributions by Glenn Adamson | Paola Antonelli with Bennett Simpson | Carlos Basualdo | Iwona Blazwick | Lynne Cooke | Thelma Golden with Glenn Ligon | Mary Jane Jacob | Jeffrey Kipnis | Paula Marincola | Detlef Mertins | Mark Nash | Ralph Rugoff | Ingrid Schaffner | Robert Storr Rising attendance at museums and megashows plus increased press coverage in the age of the international biennial and blockbuster have translated into a growing interest in how exhibitions are made. The new art histories and the curatorial studies programs springing up across North America and Europe often deal with theoretical issues, yet one of the central questions of curatorial practice frequently remains unstated: What makes a exhibition great? In this book, 14 essays by active curators and historians address the issue head on. Their perspective on realizing high ideals in the face of budget constraints and various, sometimes conflicting, institutional and public imperatives provide pragmatic examples of thinking by doing and ways to address the public through that central nexus of art and audience: the exhibition. This volume aims to stimulate thought about how overarching issues meet-on-the-ground practicalities. What Makes a Great Exhibition? is vital reading for arts professionals, art and curatorial studies students, art historians, practicing artists, and anyone curious about exhibition-making today. What Makes a Great Exhibition? will be available through Reaktion Books, London and University of Chicago Press. To place your order, visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/226520.ctl If you need any further information, contact us at pei@pcah.us or by calling (267) 350-4930. “Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility” was conceptualized and produced as a weekend-long event in October 2000. It convened a group of peers to assess the current state of curatorial practice, to articulate our professional values, and test the assumptions implicit in them. The proceedings were divided thematically into separate but integrally related discussions of curating in both its private (“imaginative practice”) and public (“public responsibility”) aspects. Underlying both themes were questions regarding curatorial power and authorship as well as inquiries into how external pressures and challenges impact upon and shape exhibition-making in what critic Michael Brenson characterized recently as “the era of the curator.” Participants included Robert Storr, Senior Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (co-organizer, moderator and keynote speaker); Kathy Halbreich, Director of the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis (keynote speaker); Anne d’Harnoncourt, the George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (panelist); Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for exhibitions, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (panelist); Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Curator, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (panelist); Mari-Carmen Ramirez, Curator of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (panelist); Ned Rifkin, Director, The Menil Collection and Foundation, Houston (panelist); Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (panelist); Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate, London (panelist), and Dave Hickey, writer and art critic, Professor of Art Criticism and Theory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (respondent). The proceedings are now available online in PDF format here, or by contacting PEI at pei@pcah.us. Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Grantee Publications: Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: On the road with Jiew Jeaw Jieb Sri and Moo Artist: Rirkrit Tiravanija Contact: Philadelphia Museum of Art 215-763-8100 Dates Shown: Spring 1998 Venue: Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College Exhibit: La Futurista Artist: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti Essayists: Cinzia Blum Lisa Panzera Christine Poggi Lucia Re Contact: www.thegalleriesatmoore.org 215-965-4026 Dates shown: September 8-October 25, 1998 Venue: Arcadia University(formerly Beaver College) Exhibit: Period Room and Other Projects Artist: Amy Hauft Essayist(s): Patricia C. Phillips Gregory Volk Connie Butler Contact: torchia@arcadia.edu 215-572-2131 Dates shown: August 18 - November 1, 1998 Venue: Nexus Exhibit: Context Artist(s): Sarah Biemiller MacDonald, E.G. Crichton, Lonnie Graham, Mei-Ling Hom, Laura Hutton, Elizabeth Leister, S. Mark Research, Jane Duncan Marsching, Gabriel Martinez, James Mills, Nicholas Muellner, Jennie Shanker, elin o'Hara slavick, Elizabeth Stephens, John Stone Essayist: Judith Barry Contact: nexus@libertynet.org Dates shown: September 4-26, 1998 Venue: Main Line Art Center Exhibit: Points of Departure: Art on the Line Artists: Dennis Adams Susie Brandt Don Camp Maria Elena Gonzalez Virgil Marti Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Kay Rosen Richard Torchia Essayists: Julie Courtney Janet Greenstein Potter Harriet F. Senie Contact: www.mainlineart.org 610-525-0272 Dates shown: Fall 1998- Spring 2001 Venue: The Philadelphia Folklore Project Exhibit: Folk Arts of Social Change Artist(s): Various Contact: pfp@folkloreproject.org 215-468-7871 Dates shown: September 9 - October 24, 1999 Venue: The Clay Studio Exhibit: River Artist: Sadashi Inuzuka Essayist: Daisy Fried Contact: www.theclaystudio.org 215-925-3453 Dates shown: September 3 - November 14, 1999 Venue: The Rosenbach Museum & Library Exhibit: Drifting: Nakahama Manjiro's Tale of Discovery Artist(s): Various Essayist(s): Elizabeth E. Fuller Pamela D. Winfield Judith M. Guston Fumiko Mori Halloran Contact: info@Rosenbach.org 215-732-1600 Dates shown: October 5, 1999 - February 6, 2000 Venue: The Fabric Workshop Exhibit: Jorge Pardo Artist: Jorge Pardo Essayist(s): Paola Antonelli Christiane Schneider Contact: www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 215-568-1111 Dates shown: April 22, 1999 - present Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: Photogravity Artist: Gabriel Orozco Essayist: Ann Temkin Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates shown: Fall 1999 Venue: Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College Exhibit: Ob/De+Con(Struction) Artist: Valie Export Essayist(s): Robert Fleck Chrissie Iles Gary Indiana Kristine Stiles Contact: www.thegalleriesatmoore.org 215-965-4026 Dates shown: January 18-February 27, 2000 Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art/Fleisher Art Memorial/Mural Arts Program Exhibit: Wall Power Artist(s): Various Essayist(s): Timothy Drescher Robin Rice Sharon Zukin Contact: Institute of Contemporary Arts 215-898-7108 Fleisher Art Memorial 215-922-3456 Mural Arts Program 215-568-5245 Dates shown: May 13 - July 30, 2000 Venue: Beaver College Art Gallery and Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibit: The Sea & The Sky Artist(s): Various Essayist: Susan Stewart Contact: torchia@beaver.edu 215-572-2131 rhagallery@eircom.net 353-1-661-2558 Dates shown: February 17-April 25, 2000 Venue: Fairmount Park Art Association Exhibit: New*Land*Marks Artist(s): Various Essayist(s): Penny Balkin Bach, Ellen Dissanayake, Thomas Hine, Lucy R. Lippard Contact: 215-546-7550 Dates shown: February 10-April 14, 2001 Venue: Chester Springs Studio Exhibit: Reenactment/Rapprochement Artist(s): Various Essayist: John Perreault Contact: www.chesterspringsstudio.org 610-827-7277 Dates shown: June 3-30, 2000 Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illuminations from Philadelphia Collections Artist(s): Various Essayist(s): Consuelo W. Dutschke, James H. Marrow, William G. Noel, Abigail B. Quandt, Kathryn A. Smith, James R. Tanis, Jennifer A. Thompson, Roger S. Wieck Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates shown: March 20-May 13, 2001; September 28, 2001-January 6, 2002 Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture of Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates Artist(s): Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Essayist(s): David B. Brownlee, David G. DeLong, Kathryn B. Hiesinger Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates shown: March 20-May 13, 2001; September 28, 2001-January 6, 2002 Venue: Michener Art Museum Exhibit: George Nakashima and the Modernist Movement Artist(s): George Nakashima, Finn Juhl, Carlo Mollino, Alexander Noll, Charlotte Perriand, Gio Ponti, Jean Prouve Essayist(s): Matilda McQuaid Contact: www.michenerartmuseum.org 215-340-9800 Dates shown: June 9 - September 16, 2001 Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: Barnett Newman Artist: Barnett Newman Essayists: Ann Temkin Richard Shiff Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates shown: March 24-July 7, 2002; September 19, 2002-January 5, 2003 Venue: The Print Center Exhibit: ImPrint Artists: Various Essayists: Joan Wadleigh Curran Vincent Katz Jacqueline van Rhyn Contact: www.printcenter.org 215-735-6090 Dates shown: September 30-November 9, 2002 Venue: Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College Exhibit: Raymond Hains: Art Speculator Artist: Raymond Hains Essayists: Aude Bodet Raymond Hains Christine Macel Tom McDonough Christian Schlatter Contact: www.thegalleriesatmoore.org 215-965-4026 Dates shown: November 5-December 15, 2002 Venue: The Fabric Workshop Exhibit: Doug Aitken: Interiors Artist: Doug Aitken Essayist(s): Michael Speaks Contact: www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 215-568-1111 Dates shown: September 20, 2002-January 11, 2003; June 15-August 10, 2003 Venue: Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts Exhibit: Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions, 1961-2002 Artist: Yvonne Rainer Essayists: Sally Banes Carrie Lambert Noël Carroll Yvonne Rainer Contact: www.uarts.edu 215-717-6480 Dates shown: October 19-November 30, 2002; September-December 2004 Venue: Borowsky Gallery, The Gershman Y Exhibit: A Happening Place Artist: Various Essayists: Constance W. Glenn Sid Sachs Contact: www.gershmany.org 215-446-3027 Dates shown: April 29-June 30, 2003 Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: Christian Marclay: The Bell and the Glass Artist: Christian Marclay Essayists: Christian Marclay Thomas Y. Levin Thaddeus A. Squire Ann Temkin Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates shown: May 7-July 6, 2003 Venue: Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College Exhibit: Jorg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist Artist: Jorg Immendorff Essayists: Pamela Kort Robert Storr Isabelle Moffatt Contact: www.thegalleriesatmoore.org 215-965-4026 Dates shown: January 23-March 21, 2004 Venue: Main Line Art Center Exhibit: Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line Artists: Bob Braine Mark Dion Kelly Kaczynski Nari Ward Essayists: Denise Markonish Jeffrey A. Cohen Russ Johnson Contact: www.mainlineart.org 610-525-0272 Dates shown: April 24 - October 22, 2004 Venue: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: Pontormo, Bronzino, and The Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence Artist: Agnolo Bronzino Jacopo Pontormo Essayists: Elizabeth Cropper Irma Passeri Beth A. Price Carl Brandon Strehlke Ken Sutherland Mark S. Tucker Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates shown: November 20, 2004-February 13, 2005 Venue: The Fabric Workshop Exhibit: Experiments with Truth Artist: Zarina Bhimji Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi Igloolik Isuma Productions Isaac Julien Amar Kanwar Langlands and Bell Glenn Ligon Multiplicity Ulrike Ottinger Pere Portabella Liisa Roberts Ezequiel Suarez Francesco Vezzoli Essayist(s): Mark Nash Lyn Rice Okwui Enwezor Geeta Kapur Contact: www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 215-568-1111 Dates shown: December 3, 2004- March 12, 2005 Venue: Brandywine River Museum Exhibit: Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950 Artist(s): Various Essayists: Richard Boyle Hilton Brown Gene Harris Richard Newman Contact: www.brandywinemuseum.org 610-388-2700 Dates Shown: March 9 - May 19, 2002; June 15 - September 1, 2002; September 21 – November 17, 2002 Venue: Paley Design Center Philadelphia University Exhibit: What Is Design Today? Artists: Various Author: George H. Marcus Contact: www.philau.edu/designcenter 215-951-2860 Dates Shown: October 11, 2002 – April 6, 2003 Venue: Arcadia University Art Gallery Exhibit: Olafur Eliasson: Two 360 Degree Spectral Color Rooms Artist: Olafur Eliasson Essayists: Jonathan Crary M.G.Minnaert Josef Albers Anders Michelsen Boris Oicherman Luc Steels John Siegfried Olafur Eliasson Richard Torchia Contact: www.arcadia.edu/gallery 215-572-2131 Dates Shown: September 1, 2004 - January 9, 2005 Venue: Eastern State Penitentiary Exhibit: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Pandemonium Artist(s): Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Essayists: Julie Courtney Richard Torchia Sean Kelley Contact: www.easternstate.org 215-236-5111 Dates Shown: May 12 - November 30, 2005 Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania Exhibit: Accumulated Vision: Barry LeVa Artist: Barry LeVa Essayists: Rhea Anastas Pamela M. Lee Ingrid Schaffner Paul Virillo Contact: www.icaphila.org 215-898-5911 Dates Shown: January 15 - April 3, 2005 Venue: Abington Art Center Exhibit: J. Morgen Puett: The Lost Meeting Artist: J. Morgan Puett Authors: J. Morgan Puett Spurse Julie Courney David Lang Contact: www.abingtonartcenter.org http://jmorganpuett.com/ 215-887-4882 Dates Shown: June 5 - November 23, 2005 Venue: Asian Arts Center Exhibit: Chinatown In/Flux Artists: Tomie Arai Skowmon Hastanan Mei-ling Hom Hirokazu Kosaka Jihyun Park Jean Shin Steve Wong Essayists: Edwin Ramoran John Chin Contact: www.asainartsinitiative.org 215-557-0455 Dates Shown: October 21, 2005 - January 29, 2006 Venue: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Exhibit: Ellen Harvey: Mirror Artist: Ellen Harvey Essayists: Alex Baker Shamim M. Momin Contact: www.pafa.org 215-972-7600 Dates Shown: October 15, 2005 – January 8, 2006 Venue: Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit: (Notations) William Kentridge: Ten Tapestries Artist: William Kentridge Authors: Carlos Basualdo Gabriele Guercio Ivan Vladislavic Okwui Enwezor Contact: www.philamuseum.org 215-763-8100 Dates Shown: December 12, 2007 - April 6, 200 Venue: Philagrafika (Philadelphia Print Collaborative) Exhibit: (Re)Print Artist: Magdalena Campos-Pons Bernie Searle Rachid Koraichi Authors: Salah Hassan Teresa Jaynes Contact: http://www.philagrafika.org/ 215-557-8433 Dates Shown: September - November, 2007  Venue: Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design Exhibit: Artur Barrio: Actions after Actions Artist: Artur Barrio Authors: Molly Dougherty Brian Wallace Carlos Basualdo Claudia Calirman Éric Mangion Contact: http://www.thegalleriesatmoore.org/ 215-965-4027 Dates Shown: February 8 - March 19, 2006 Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibit: Architecture + Design Series: Holiday Home, Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UN Studio, Amsterdam) Visual Media: Imaginary Forces (New York/ Los Angeles) Artists: Ben van Berkel Caroline Bos Contact: http://www.icaphila.org/ 215-898-7108 Dates Shown: January 21 - March 26, 2006  Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibit: Architecture + Design Series: Fertilizers: Olin/Eisenman Artist: Peter Eisenman Laurie Olin Authors: Claudia Gould Julia Czerniak Contact: http://www.icaphila.org/ 215-898-7108 Dates Shown: September 9 - December 17, 2006  Venue: The Print Center Exhibit: Taken With Time Artist: Ann Hamilton Vera Lutter Abelardo Morell Authors: Jacqueline van Rhyn Contact: http://www.printcenter.org/ 215-735-6090 Dates Shown: September 7 – November 11, 2006  Venue: University of Pennsylvania School of Design Architectural Archives Exhibit: Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond Artists: Anton and Noémi Raymond Authors: Kenneth Frampton Kurt G.F. Helfrich Ken Tadashi Oshima Mari Sakamoto Nakahara Christine Vendredi Auzanneau Contact: http://www.design.upenn.edu/ Dates Shown: June 29, 2006 – September 24, 2006