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"Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show" by Roberta Smith; 2010

Roberta Smith analyzes the use of traditional white walled galleries. The show "Skin Fruit," at the new museum was the center of her Criticism. She explains that a gallery with white walls is a very comfortable and poorly curated idea. She seems to focus on the integration of installation and works. She expresses a desire to see each decision thought through carefully and uniquely.

What if work is made for the white wall? Is it not the heart of art to be able to freely express and present yourself? Is it pejorative to dismiss the traditional gallery and to way curatorial practices to heavily on work that may need to exist on a white wall?

"Who Needs a White Cube These Days?" by Roberta Smith; 2006

Roberta Smith expresses yet again a need to deviate from traditional gallery spaces. She desires a new way to approach curatorial practices.

Does a new way count for a new kind of work?

Would that new work be the new way?

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by Trent Weaver

The video was of poor quality and the guy was kind of cheesy they used a a song that probably was not liscenced to them. It reminded me of a book by anne Stanezewski about what art is and isnt. He runs through the progression of movements of art all the way until the conceptual age. He talks about the importance of the idea in todays art.

Where does relational aesthetics come in?

What about other art forms that are not conceptual?