I’m having a blast participating in Ask a Curator Day. Not only are museums responding to my questions, but I’m following the hashtag and reading so many other great questions and answers.
Here’s what I asked LACMA:
Here’s how they responded: (read bottom to top)
I love that they the use of text in relation to historical connections, but that they also admit to allowing the art to breathe and exist without pre-determined interpretation. And to go a step further and actually cite an example of it on the LACMA campus? Beautiful.
The only question I have left is…
Avast ye Matisse! I’ve come to seek buried treasure. Mayhaps it lies in The Sun and Other Starghs. I’d bet me parrot and me wooden leg ’tis there!
