His marvelous, underappreciated oeuvre cries out for a full-scale museum survey.
His marvelous, underappreciated oeuvre cries out for a full-scale museum retrospective.
It would take a full-scale museum retrospective to do that.
In truth, models have never garnered the full-scale museum treatment, either.
Mr. Wallenda, for his part, said he had been hoping to open a Wallenda-themed exhibition — perhaps someday a full-scale museum — in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
The plan is to use these sites, which attract about a million visitors a year, to anchor a full-scale museum.
(Ms. Peyton's first American full-scale museum survey, "Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton," opens at the New Museum this Wednesday, just two weeks before Ms. Heilmann's).
His artwork is just the biggest surprise in "This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie," the first full-scale museum exhibition on this American original, 33 years after his death.
If it is the job of the full-scale museum retrospective to establish its subject as a mythic Ur-artist, who relentlessly blazed trails and opened doors, this show succeeds, but only halfway.
Considering how much of what we think we know about the world now is based, for better or worse, on digital visualization, this is an exhibition whose aesthetic, scientific and philosophical implications cry out to be unpacked in a full-scale museum show.
When the Institut was founded in 1983, the Lumière home and factory were closed and scheduled for destruction; now, thanks to a board of directors headed by the director (and Lyon native) Bertrand Tavernier, the site is home to an ambitious exhibition program and a full-scale museum that opens today.
