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For press inquiries please contact Anne Wrinkle, press and marketing, at:
505.989.1199 ext. 22
email: wrinkle@sitesantafe.org
SITE Santa Fe Press Releases
Links to recent press articles:
Los Angeles Times; A World of Pleasures
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism
Selected Press Statements
Dave Hickey noted..."As the poet John Ashbery said, 'The best we can expect
is a pleasant surprise.'" Actually, finding a visual feast prepared by Mr.
Hickey at SITE Santa Fe should be no surprise at all."
Michael Rush, The New York Times
July 8, 2001
A World of Pleasures: SITE Santa Fe's sensual, color-drenched Beau
Monde exhibition is a visual knockout. Beau Monde: Toward a
Redeemed Cosmopolitanism is an exhibition designed to make you swoon.
It works.
The artists have transformed that [former beer] warehouse into a luxurious
pleasure palace, where the aroma of beer is replaced by the promise of cocktails...Just
about the only thing missing from this glamorous, sophisticated show are Bobby
Short and his cafˇ-society band.
Standing before [Jim] Isermann's silver screen and [Gajin] Fujita's flashy
marquee, you are cast as Dorothy Gale at the moment she opens the door of
her tornado-relocated Kansas farmhouse at the edge of Munchkinland. The black
and white world of ordinary experience falls away, erased by a Technicolor
haze.
Beau Monde is one of those rare shows that joyfully smash all
kinds of preconceptions. For me, it will be a touchstone--not only of where
we are in art right now, but also of the hopeful direction in which we're
headed.
Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times
July 17, 2001
In its brief history, SITE has established a tradition of tight, coherently
themed biennials that have made some of the country's longer-established surveys--the
Whitney Biennial in New York; the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh--seem
slight and superficial. In Hickey's edition of the Santa Fe event, titled
Beau Monde, 44 works by contemporary artists of unusually varied ages
and backgrounds have been corralled into one of the most coherently eye-tingling
group exhibitions I have ever seen.
Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post
July 22, 2001
This show is for people who love art, relish the creative process and aren't
afraid to confront things they don't fully understand. It's an exhilarating
experience, not without discomfiture, rife with opportunities to recognize
affinities along with distinctions, and titillating to the intellect as well
as the senses.
It's also one of the most elegantly installed and cohesively organized surveys
in recent years--accessible without being condescending and theatrical as
opposed to stagy.
Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News
July 29, 2001
Beau Monde advances one big argument--for itself as a model of what
an omnibus exhibition should be like--as well as several lesser arguments
for the art it displays. The main point succeeds completely. The others invite
spirited debate. The importance of pleasure in aesthetic experience is so
simple and self-evident. How did we reach a point where a forthright assertion
of that idea by an art show can seem like a stroke of genius?
Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker
August 13, 2001
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