From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Fossil Halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville and the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York, more than a few significant institutional exhibitions of the last few years have been carried out by Ralph Appelbaum Associates.
Although women have become increasingly visible in the fields of art, architecture and design, they are frequently underrepresented in institutional exhibitions.
With current institutional exhibitions exploring figuration presenting few of those contributions, "Part of the discussion was looking at art, particularly [that of] Kara Walker, who is in the show, and making [our] exhibition about that form of expression," Villalongo says.
The performance is part of Work, E.S.P. TV's first institutional solo exhibition in the US.
FLY, the New York-based artist's first institutional, solo exhibition, occupies an isolated room on PS1's ground floor, where Bennani has installed a series of geometric shapes, irregular protruding panels, and a mirrored staircase on three walls, upon which heavily edited footage from trips to her native country of Morocco are projected.
But the fact is, similar institutional group exhibitions of up-and-coming artists have long been an annual feature in the city's art season.
From time to time they house institutional traveling exhibitions and engage in collaborative efforts with museums as well, a point that further distinguishes them from other types of galleries.
Hollybush Gardens are showing works by Lubaina Himid, an artist this young gallery started representing when she was in her late fifties and who has since had two major institutional solo exhibitions.
2. LENDER INVOLVEMENT The policy should assure that the museum will maintain intellectual integrity and institutional control over the exhibition.
Long considered incompatible with real seriousness - Evans thought it "vulgar" - colour photography was suddenly granted institutional acceptance with the exhibition, in 1976, of work by William Eggleston.
