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Walter "Chico" Hopps (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an American museum director, gallerist, and curator of contemporary art. Hopps helped bring Los Angeles post-war artists to prominence during the 1960s, and later went on to redefine practices of curatorial installation internationally.
Walter Hopps, a leading curator of 20th-century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 72 and lived in...
18 de may. de 2023 · Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps spotted, acquired, encouraged or enabled as a ...
13 de ago. de 2023 · Once dubbed “the marvelous mad maven of modern art in America,” Walter Hopps (1932–2005) estimated that he had curated some 250 exhibitions in his 50+ year career.
Walter Hopps began his career in Los Angeles, where in 1957 he co-founded the Ferus Gallery and was instrumental in bringing the first postwar generation of the city’s artists to international prominence.
19 de abr. de 2023 · The Menil Collection showcases the curatorial vision of Walter Hopps, a legendary American curator, gallerist, and museum director who worked with artists like Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and Andy Warhol. Learn about his groundbreaking exhibitions, his collaborations with artists, and his legacy in the art world.
As director of the Pasadena Museum of Art (1963–67), Hopps mounted an impressive roster of exhibitions, including the first U.S. retrospectives of Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell and the first museum overview of American Pop art (“New Paintings of Common Objects”)—not to mention Marcel Duchamp’s first one-man museum show.
