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Beyond the Blockbuster: Good Exhibitions in Small Packages
Author(s) -
Lee Ellen W.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.1994.tb01707.x
Subject(s) - exhibition , visual arts , painting , art , art history
Many American and European art museums are now featuring small, highly‐focused shows in their exhibition programs. In 1990, the Indianapolis Museum of Art organized an exhibition that reunited, for the first time in a century, the four landscape paintings created by neo‐impressionist Georges Seurat during the last summer of his life. Using Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes as an example, this article addresses the advantages — for museums and their visitors — of the small temporary exhibition.