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Quotes About Exhibition

Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are never top-ranked in auction choices.
~ Agnes Gund
Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.
~ Lee Krasner
A crash sounded from the exhibition room. OrbaLin spun around to face the smashed doors. "And maybe they never left." The archivist flicked out his wrist and a short lightsaber appeared in his waiting hand, delivered from a secret compartment in his suit. For all his quirks, the archivist had class, but would it be enough to keep them both alive?
~ Cavan Scott
But fear of the overall damage that would be done—concern over the recently opened art exhibition in the Public Gardens and the tremendous losses with which the hotels, the shops, the entire, multifaceted tourist trade would be threatened in case of panic and loss of confidence—proved stronger in the city than the love of truth and respect for international covenants: it made the authorities stick stubbornly to their policy of secrecy and denial.
~ Thomas Mann
I must emphasize, no matter how obvious it sounds, that good curating depends upon a bottomless passion and curiosity for looking and questioning; and the desire to communicate that excitement. - Donna De Salvo
~ Carin Kuoni
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
~ George Crane
The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.
~ Ajay Naidu
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
~ Will Cotton
An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.
~ Ben Eine
Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.
~ James Turrell
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
~ Jerry Saltz
Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
And the largest piece was buried beneath a pile of offal Ziller had gathered along the bridle paths of Central Park. Naturally, as the days wore on, the exhibition began to engage senses other than sight and touch, offering somewhat of a challenge to olfactory aesthetics.
~ Tom Robbins
Participant Inc. gallery,
~ Kim Gordon
Costa stepped out of the Jeep, smiling as if attending an exhibition where he was the featured artist. Elwood Mills handcuffed himself to the murder suspect so that Costa would not try to make an escape in the dense woods.
~ Casey Sherman
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
~ Jerry Rubin
My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the slave-ship exhibition. 'This is unbelievable,' she said. 'Myra, you have to see this, this is unbelievable.' I cringed at how fast she was talking. Why unbelievable? This all actually happened! Why is this all so hard to believe?
~ Tamara Faith Berger
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
~ Laura Marano
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.
~ Florian Schneider
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
~ Zaha Hadid
It's French," she said. "They designed it like a zoo—you know, keep 'em in, but give everyone a good look at 'em...
~ Christopher Moore
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.
~ James Frey