September 15, 2004
Back to Meier
We had already decided on Berlin's National Gallery, as shown here. The good news was that the current exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie ("Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York") is an unprecedented success, with people staying overnight outside the building in order to get tickets. I was already planning to interview them and then include that as part of the response to the Chumbacca exhibition.
The bad news is that the exhibition will be over this week, and the worse news is that the Neue Nationalgalerie's scope is limited to 20th century European painting and sculpture ranging from classic modern art to art of the 1960s. The price I pay for my ignorance of all things German. So it would be (even more) implausible to set the Chumbacca exhibition over there.
The urgency derives from Lucas' request: I should give him a clearer idea of how the exhibition is organized before he settles on a blueprint for the catalog.
Somehow, we're back at the Getty. The Research Institute building (shown here, to the left) tempts me, because I know it so well, but they would hardly set the exhibition there. They would hardly set the exhibition anywhere, of course, but then again if they're capable of dropping that monstrosity and leaving it there forever, I can't see why not.
In any case, the catalog should be structured following the more "possible" spaces for an exhibition like Chumbacca's.
The Getty official site is not very helpful, but this is great. Starting from there, then. I should probably show this to Coll as well and talk about integration between his ideas and the Getty spaces. In the meantime, here's a different Chumbacca balloon at the museum proper.
Posted by huili at September 15, 2004 10:13 AM