http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/09/25/chelsea-art-museum-pulls-plug/ Just another Walker Blogs weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:54:57 -0600 walker_blogs hourly 1 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/09/25/chelsea-art-museum-pulls-plug/comment-page-1/#comment-645 John Everett Daquino Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:04:55 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/09/25/chelsea-art-museum-pulls-plug-on-terror-show-chief-curator-resigns-in-protest/#comment-645 What an outrage!!! I am very curious to know how the cancellation came about. Given the fact that the Chelsea Art Museum is not a gigantic institution, I assume the director knew very well the details of the project, which I hear was about two years in the making. So, what made her decide to cancel it now? I wonder who was funding the exhibit and what pressure did they exert onto the director? As a curator and someone who thinks about issues relating to visual culture and the aestheticization of violence, I was looking forward to this exhibit and the accompanying catalog. Just as the ICP exhibition of the photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib sparked an intellectual conversation on the nature of the imagery, so too would have this exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum. I hope people raise hell over this issue.... what should we do? What an outrage!!! I am very curious to know how the cancellation came about. Given the fact that the Chelsea Art Museum is not a gigantic institution, I assume the director knew very well the details of the project, which I hear was about two years in the making. So, what made her decide to cancel it now? I wonder who was funding the exhibit and what pressure did they exert onto the director? As a curator and someone who thinks about issues relating to visual culture and the aestheticization of violence, I was looking forward to this exhibit and the accompanying catalog. Just as the ICP exhibition of the photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib sparked an intellectual conversation on the nature of the imagery, so too would have this exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum. I hope people raise hell over this issue…. what should we do?

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