"Jennifer Doyle, an English professor and contemporary art specialist at the University of California, Riverside, said she saw the idea as a challenge by a nonurban museum to the art-world dominance of New York and Los Angeles. Bentonville has a population of 38,000, smaller than the average weekly attendance at the Museum of Modern Art.
“If you want to assert your own set of cultural values, then this seems like a grandly ambitious scheme to try to do that,” Ms. Doyle said. “It’s almost like a census.”
She added: “Personally I wish it wasn’t Walmart money that was doing this. But I guess it would be the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel critique to point out that Walmart is often blamed for hurting the sorts of places — small-town, middle-class America — where they’re now looking for this kind of individual expression.”
Mr. Bacigalupi said Walmart rarely came up in discussions with artists, though one, in Ohio, was wary of showing them a work in which a miniature Walmart truck was foundering in an oil spill — his sculptural metaphor for the recession. But Mr. Bacigalupi reassured him it was “the kind of adventurous work we’re looking for.”
Catalina Delgado-Trunk, an artist, talked with the curators Don Bacigalupi, right, and Chad Alligood in Albuquerque. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times While Walmart and its subsidiary Sam’s Club have contributed to make admission to the exhibition free, he stressed that the company had no involvement in shaping the show.
Lien pour l'article au complet:
http://app.nytimes.com/#2014/02/09/nytfrontpage/seeking-us-art-all-over-map-just-check-gps
Lien pour le musée:
http://crystalbridges.org/
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