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as well as two major new commissions for the Hessel Museum—a walkway designed by Lawrence Weiner
that incorporates his signature text works, and a large-scale installation by Korean-born artist Do-Ho Suh,
with thousands of diminutive figures buried below the glass floor of the Hessel Museum’s entrance gallery.
The permanent collection also has works that have been given to the Center by Eileen and Michael Cohen,
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Asher Edelman, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Robert Gober, Joan and
Gerald Kimmelman, Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton, Toni and Martin Sosnoff, and Thea Westreich
and Ethan Wagner. Many of the gifts are works from the 1990s by young and mid-career artists.
This collection also provides the basis for faculty research and teaching. CCS faculty members Rhea
Anastas and Michael Brenson are currently editing Witness to Her Art, a major anthology of writings on
important exhibitions by Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, Rosemarie Trockel, Cady Noland, and other women
artists whose works are well represented in the collection. Witness to Her Art will be launched at the
Hessel Museum inauguration in November.
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
The principal aim of the CCS exhibition program is to encourage and explore experimental approaches to
the presentation of contemporary visual arts, particularly approaches that reflect the Center’s commitment
to the multidisciplinary study of art and culture. Exhibitions are organized and presented on a regular basis
in the CCS galleries by the director of the Center, and by Center faculty and visiting curators and scholars,
who are invited to discuss their projects with students and the public in gallery walk-throughs and the
Center’s lecture series. Beginning in the fall of 2006, the CCS exhibition program will also include
exhibitions and projects in the new Hessel Museum of Art, as well as a new series of artists’ projects and
commissions for the campus grounds that extend into the wider community.
Installation view of thesis exhibition
Draw a straight line and follow it,
curated by Anna Gray. Detail of
Peter Coffin’s version of Butterfly
Piece Composition No. 5, 2006.
Thesis exhibition critique
Since 1994 the Center for Curatorial Studies has presented several exhibitions exploring issues of contemporary
museology, including Exhibited (1994), Sniper’s Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard
(1995), a/drift (1996), and Odradek (1998); and exhibitions highlighting aspects of the collection, such
as Mirror Image; The Arch of Desire: Women in the Marieluise Hessel Collection; Re(f)use; and Text,
Texture, Touch (all 2002). The Center has also presented exhibitions of work by the Cuban photographer
Arturo Cuenca (1995) and the Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov (1996); retrospective exhibitions of
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