I'd put
LA's new Mistake Room on the to do list. It doesn't matter where you go, LA or Portland... most institutions aren't open enough to this sort of thing. The Dia used to be the king and before that, what the
PCVA did very well was take chances and actively avoid parochialisms.
Edward Winkleman on the
"Don'ts" of the new MoMA expansion.
Hyperallergic
catches some parents letting their kids use a Judd stack as a bunk bed. I wish this were just some outlier episode but these sorts of things are pretty common. Museums and art going in general has gradually taken on the same audience pandering as other "entertainment venues." There has a been a general lowering of the respect quotient in art production and it has been replaced with a sort of funhouse mentality. This cues parents (who obviously need to reign in this sort of misbehavior) to treat the art experience like a playground. Obviously, this doesn't describe every parent/child situation but because a Judd is involved it is heightened. Judd took everything very seriously. The
problem with positioning cultural production as "entertainment" certainly has its pitfalls.
This online exhibition of
Judd's woodcut prints by the Judd Foundation makes his seriousness all the more present.
Jerry Saltz on selfies... do or don't everyone online today is expected to ha an online persona, but few are prepared to do much with it.
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