LA Times Charts Institutional Interest in Collecting Performance Art

August 12th, 2019

Artist Xu Zhen’s show of live performance sculptures at MoCA in LA has the city’s main newspaper looking at recent efforts by museum’s to acquire performance works.  “You’re collecting an idea and the documentation, if the artist has stipulated, but sometimes they prefer it to be fleeting and ephemeral and totally experiential,” says director of education and senior curator of programs Amanda Hunt.

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