Rosalind Krauss is an American art critic and a professor at Columbia University in New York City. In 1976 her bedroom looked like this. Mean. It was designed by the late Alan Buchsbaum (who died in 1987), and you can view some more of his excellent interiors here.
“Today, curating as a profession means at least four things. It means to preserve, in the sense of safeguarding the heritage of art. It means to be the selector of new work. It means to connect to art history. And it means displaying or arranging the work. But it’s more than that. Before 1800, few people went to exhibitions. Now hundreds of millions of people visit them every year. It’s a mass medium and a ritual. The curator sets it up so that it becomes an extraordinary experience and not just illustrations or spatialised books.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses the art of curation in The Guardian.
Early in his career, Longo had his own band too. The artist was the lead singer of Menthol Wars, who performed in New York in the late 1970s. Below is their very excellent single Even Lower Manhattan, released in 1982 on a Terminal Records compilation called Cleveland Confidential.
(Also worth noting is Tramway’s commitment to video documentation of its exhibitions – an excellent resource for those unable to attend a show in the flesh).
