Issue #72 Could Reading Be Looking?

Could Reading Be Looking?

Orit Gat

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Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm (1650–51). Oil on canvas.

Issue #72
April 2016










Notes
1

T. J. Clark, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 1.

2

See

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See

4

All quoted in Gail Gregg, “‘Your Labels Make Me Feel Stupid,’” Artnews, July 1, 2010

5

From MoMA’s best practices and guidelines for interpretive writing.

6

Christopher Knight, “A flatly false claim by new Whitney Museum about my 1993 review,” LA Times, April 30, 2015

7

See Fred Wilson and Howard Hall, “Mining the Museum,” Grand Street 44 (1993): 151–172.

8

Anand Giridharadas, “Museums See Different Virtues in Virtual Worlds,” New York Times, August 7, 2014

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See

10

“Rien à voir, mais beaucoup à penser” (translation mine). Emmanuelle Lequeux, “Neuf histoires de vide au Centre Pompidou,” Le Monde, February 21, 2009

11

Ingrid Schaffner, “Wall Text,” in What Makes a Great Exhibition, ed. Paula Marincola (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Exhibition Initiative, 2006), 154–167.

12

Idib., 161. (I have no intention of somehow misinterpreting Schaffner’s fantastic research into the subject: she writes this line in connection with the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, an institution/artwork based completely on a beautiful tension between the association of museum presentation with fact and the fantastic fiction presented in this place.)