The Contemporary Exhibition

Open to Art School BFA3 and BFA4.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.

This course will consider the exhibition as a/the
primary context for defining the objectives and
parameters of contemporary art discourse. Among
our concerns will be the shifting roles of
artists and curators, sites of production
(museum, exhibition catalogue or website), and
sites of critical and historical reception. We
will examine groundbreaking and controversial
exhibitions, such as Anti-Illusion:
Procedures/Materials, Live in Your Head: When
Attitudes Become Form, Information, Bad Painting,
Pictures, the 1993 Whitney Biennial of American
Art, Utopia Station, and Documenta 11, alongside
the work of influential curators, such as Nicolas
Bourriaud, Okwui Enwezor, Thelma Golden, Lucy
Lippard, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Harald Szeemann, and
Marcia Tucker. The course will be driven by
individual and group research projects,
conversations with local or visiting curators,
and lively class discussion.