Its high-society origins and high-concept exhibition have attracted much attention.
It may help to recall that as a young black curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1994, Ms. Golden organized "Black Male," a high-concept exhibition of some interesting work but also of often appalling stereotyped images (street thugs, the homeless, sex machines and pimps) that justly enraged blacks and many others.
Postmodernism is really about an exquisite awareness of what it is you're doing" It's a shame that... It's still a vast, unstable, divisive and even dismissible concept; the exhibition may have simply too much ground to cover to really feel coherent.
For reflecting on change over time (first framing concept), an exhibition was created with showcases of fossil specimens; and with the reconstruction of a small paleontological laboratory, complete with a reproduction/simulation of a paleontological dig with fossils.
A striking and newsworthy concept, the exhibition was featured in the New York Times, Time, and Good Morning America, which Ferrara almost missed because back then he was "waiting tables until 4 o'clock in the morning".
In style, Mr. Chagoya's show is the very opposite of the concept-intensive exhibitions at Exit Art.
Owned by Detroit native and prolific collector Gary Wasserman, the venue specializes in high-concept, experimental exhibitions intent on making a major, immediate, and lasting impact both locally and internationally.
His exhibition concept is less a concept than a happenstance placing of this object next to that one, and these across from those.
Mr. Varnedoe suggested a number of exhibition concepts to Mr. Rubin, including one involving primitivism.
Complementing the installations was the artist-audience discussion aimed to explore and articulate the concepts of the exhibition, asking about the limits of copying and free access to information: What is piracy?
