What Makes a Great Exhibition?

Name: What Makes a Great Exhibition?
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ISBN: 9780970834614

ISBN-10: 0970834616

ISBN-13: 9780970834614

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paula Marincola

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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…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 2/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Paula Marincola is the Director of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Inititative (PEI).



Introduction: Practice Makes Perfect



Show and Tell



In Lieu of Higher Ground



You Talking To Me? On Curating Group Shows that Give You a Chance to Join the Group



The Unstable Institution



With Our Faces to the Rising Sun



Mies's New National Gallery: Empty and Full



Design and Architecture



Who's afraid of gift-wrapped kazoos?



Handy-Crafts: A Doctrine



Temple/White Cube/Laboratory



Making Space for Art



Questions of Practice



Wall Text



Afterword



Acknowledgments