On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
and unless they are accepted as works of art, I'll probably never see this collection again after it comes down in January.
Why don't you do it? Anything can be exhibited, and anybody can be an exhibitionist.
Why don't you organize a long-term exhibition of the tapestries, secure the loan of the tapestries, solicit the necessary financing, get a suitable building to house the exhibition, arrange the writing of suitable guide materials (exhibition catalog, brochures, wall labels, web site, etc.), publicize the exhibition, and all the rest.
Then, you can do any damned thing you want, short of destroying the works or defaming the owners. You can assert your own theory of their making and historical context, their relationship to other contemporaneous works of art, their status in the artworld or wider society or culture, etc.
You can do this. It's America, after all, and all things are possible for an enterprising person.
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