Ok, its true I have an unequivocal bias for the Walters. Ill admit it upfront, I lived two blocks away from them in Baltimore, one of their curators is writing my grad school recommendations, and I have the inside skinny on a few different things which makes me feel *special*.
But this:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=28307
WAS FANTASTIC news!
Ina nutshell, they are going to literally, visually feature the Elven workshop that is their conservation department, so that it will be on view, a sort of live art workshop. GENIUS. This is so brilliant. No I havent sat around doing research to see which other spaces are doing the same thing if any, but I *have* been travelign recently and I can tell you definitively that the Met, SFMOMA, MOMA, MOCA, and the BMA are not. And that is Sufficient to ME. And Ill tell you why, this is a truly contemporary step, a process bare, object-unecessary nod to expanded format performance. Not only that but its COOL, and afterall thats what really counts.
