On Returning: an introduction
Look back to the origins of the modern museum and you’ll find an odd sort of institution. The product of ... More
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Proposal for a Museum: Questions on Expansion
After the last submission for our series Proposal for a Museum was published on Open Space in February, we invited ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Dana DeGiulio
Later this year SFMOMA will close for an expansion planned to last nearly three years. Reflecting on the closure, grupa ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Terry Smith, ‘You Can Be a Museum, or Contemporary …’
In the late 1980s, when museums of contemporary art began to be founded throughout the world, Gertrude Stein’s oft-quoted ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Trieste Constructivist Cabinet
In 2013 SFMOMA will close for an expansion project planned to last nearly three years. Reflecting on the closure, grupa o.k. asked ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Arden Sherman, Mise en green
Pablo Picasso, Guernica (installation view, SFMOMA), 1937 I started to notice the plants a few years ago when I began my ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art
The Museum of Contemporary African Art was conceived in 1997 by the artist Meschac Gaba, born in Cotonou, Benin, during ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Roman Ondák’s Virtual Museum of Contemporary Art
At the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, Roman Ondák displayed a reproduction of this letter addressed to the Slovakian Minister of ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Xiaoyu Weng, Museum of the False
“The status of fiction has vanished into the myth of the fact.” —Robert Smithson The first museums in European history ... More
Proposal for a Museum: El Lissitzky’s Kabinett der Abstrakten
El Lissitzky built this modular and changeable room for abstract art in 1927–28 at the invitation of Alexander Dorner for ... More
Proposal for a Museum by Ahmet Öğüt: Artifact (hereafter referred to as the work of art)
How can we grasp the relationship between an institution and its collection of objects? One indication might begin from ... More
Proposal for a Museum: Dieter Roelstraete and Monika Szewczyk in Conversation
Today’s proposal, the last in the sequence, takes the form of a conversation between Dieter Roelstraete and Monika Szewczyk. Dieter ... More
