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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.
By Roberta Smith. March 23, 2005. 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...
13 de ago. de 2023 · Hopps’s impressive curatorial record constitutes the framework of The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, which features more than 130 artworks by 70 artists, many of which are recent or promised gifts to the museum from Caroline Huber and the Estate of Walter Hopps.
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 ...
Walter Hopps. 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. Among the seminal exhibitions he organized as curator and director of the Pasadena Art Museum were the first retrospectives ...
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.
WALTER HOPPS: They both happened at the same time. When I was in high school, I formed a kind of photographic society, and we did projects and exhibits at the high school. It was also at that time that I first met Walter and Louise Arensberg. But some of my closest friends were actually musicians, and the ’40s were a great time of innovation ...
