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27 de abr. de 2023 · In 1959, the sculptor Ed Kienholz made a work based on his friend Walter Hopps. Though Hopps was only 27 years old at the time, he and Kienholz had already known each other for four years, ever since Kienholz wandered into Hopps’s first gallery, Syndell Studio, on the west side of Los Angeles. In 1956, Hopps gave Kienholz his first show.
The show will explore the influential curatorial vision of the Menil Collection’s Founding Director Walter Hopps (1932–2005) and his appreciation for art from the 1930s to the early 2000s. The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps will be on view at the Menil from March 24–August 13, 2023 and coincides with the publication of Artists We ...
11 de mar. de 2020 · Walter Hopps’ forward-looking Ferus Gallery introduced Andy Warhol’s work to the world back in 1962, and it didn’t happen in New York City. Two sleepy little towns: laid back, beatnik-flavored Venice, California and tasteful, manicured Pasadena were the scenes of pioneering exhibitions that changed American culture, both highbrow and low ...
Walking into The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, now on view at the Menil Collection, we are greeted (and that really is the word) by a larger-than-life assemblage portraying Walter Hopps (1932–2005).In 1959, Ed Kienholz constructed Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps from the metal sign for the Bardahl Oil Man, cleverly conflating Hopps with the company character who peddled oil lubricants by ...
15 de jun. de 2017 · Walter Hopps’s just-published memoir, The Dream Colony, opens with the sentence “My parents collected plein-air California paintings, and that was the art that hung in the Hopps household.”The line is striking for its thumbnail sketch of the pattern Hopps’s life would take: that he managed to turn identifying, collecting, and living with art into a career that vastly influenced post ...
22 de mar. de 2005 · Walter Hopps, 72, the self-taught curator who specialized in 20th-century art and gained an international reputation for his innovative exhibitions, died March 20 at a hospital in Los Angeles ...
22 de mar. de 2005 · Walter Hopps wasn't. He was sort of a gonzo museum director -- elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules. That's if you could find him, which wasn't ...
