The Museum of Everything presents
EXHIBITION #1
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Reviews for Exhibition #1 at The Museum of Everything:
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Amazing! Ed Ruscha, Artist |
Awed With Everything! Paul Ruscha, Brother of Artist |
The best exhibit in London NOW! |
It was everything I hoped for. |
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Time Out: Best of 2009 <<
Looking back at 2009, it might be productive to consider ... the widespread enthusiasm this autumn for “Exhibition #1” at the Museum of Everything in London: a ten-thousand-square-foot installation of outsider art (selected by such well-known artists and curators as Thelma Golden, Annette Messager, Ed Ruscha, and Terry Winters) in a former dairy. At the time of the show’s opening in October, countless artists, writers, and curators called it the best on view anywhere — compelling precisely for eliding (if not flaunting) the familiar, fixed categories and platforms of contemporary art circles and for skirting presiding and arbitrating tastes in both subject and form. The work in the exhibition was, in other words, appealing precisely for its disarmingly, maybe even profoundly ambiguous status. And while audiences’ desire for such an uncertain aura might have been described in other years as a simple appetite for novelty, in our present context the canny name of the venue alone offers, I think, a clue in another direction. That is, when it comes to the reception and resonance of the Museum of Everything’s first show, questions of outside and inside are perhaps less significant than is the status of art as an autonomous field. If some “old order” is being put into question, the depth of our affinity here ... suggests that the relevant systemic instability is that of art itself.
Editor's Letter: Art Forum, December 2009
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