Title & Author:

What makes a great exhibition? / Paula Marincola, editor.

Publication:

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 cm

Notes:
"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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

0970834616 (paperback)
9780970834614 (paperback)

Subject:

Golden, Thelma Interviews.
Antonelli, Paola Interviews.
Antonelli, Paola.
Golden, Thelma.
Art Exhibition techniques.
Art Techniques d'exposition.
Kunstausstellung
Museumspädagogik
Art museum curators United States Interviews.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Marincola, Paula. editor.
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. issuing body.

Half title: Questions of practice

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255790
Call No.: BIB 186067
Status: Available