Word: rehanging
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...pleasure of seeing multiple options emerging more or less simultaneously in early Modernism," says John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture. "But another was the loss of seeing the integrity and the unfolding of individual achievements and artistic movements." As for Tate Modern, it is planning to rehang its entire permanent collection next year in time for the museum's sixth anniversary. In late September, it will provide the first clues as to whether it will stick with the thematic approach or try something more historical...
...dismaying news, London's National Gallery announced that its Scholar in a Lofty Room bears the signature of a Rembrandt imitator. "The fact that Helmet is not a Rembrandt may be disappointing, but it is still a very good work," says Berlin Curator Jan Kelch. While the museum will rehang it and has no intention of selling it, the raw realities of the art market are not nearly so aesthetically pure. The painting's estimated value has dropped from $8 million to a mere...
...faintness in some of his colleagues. But nobody could accuse him of not thinking long and hard about whatever he scrutinizes, and he has been responsible for some of MOMA's curatorial masterpieces, including the 1980 Picasso retrospective and the 1977 show of late Cézanne. To rehang a collection like MOMA'S-to make new neighbors and inflect old contexts-entails very great responsibilities, because so many of the paintings and sculptures are the classics, the test pieces and the beloved chestnuts of modernism...
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