When I was in graduate school studying art history, we used to joke about the “this looks like this” problem that we perceived as running rampant in the field. Stated simply, the problem is that it’s very easy to find visual similarities between objects that really have nothing historically, contextually, or subjectively to do with each other.
Posts by Laura Hoptman
April 26, 2013
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Collection & Exhibitions
Henry Taylor, Pawel Althamer, and Cathy Wilkes Walk into a Bar…
November 8, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
A Curator Observing an Artist Being a Curator
It has been just about a year since the artist Trisha Donnelly was invited to be the tenth artist to participate in Artist’s Choice, an ongoing series in which a contemporary artist is asked to create an exhibition from the The Museum of Modern Art’s vast collection.
October 9, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
Yayoi Kusama’s Return to MoMA
When The Museum of Modern Art undertook the exhibition Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1972 in 1998 we thought that we were giving this great artist her first exhibition at MoMA.
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