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“Mr. Waters, also an actor, writer, artist and art collector, is now a museum curator as well. Invited by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to plumb its storerooms and make additions to and subtractions from an existing show of works from its collection, Mr. Waters — in his role as “Absentee Landlord,” as he named his installation, which opened this month — selected what he considered to be uneasy roommates. “I want to clean house, reward troublemakers and invite crashers,” he wrote in an introductory wall panel that raises unusual curatorial questions.”
Absentee Landlord features works from the Walker collection by Mike Kelley, Carolee Schneeman, Robert Gober, Richard Artshwager, Jack Pierson, Willem de Kooning, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cameron Jamie, Sturtevant, and John Currin, coexisting with several pieces by Waters, a widely exhibited visual artist himself, and works by some of his favorite artists such as Gregory Green, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Karlheinz Weinberger. Additional interventions by Waters throughout the museum incorporate surprises into activities like parking the car, checking in at the visitors’ desk, or ordering food in the café.
You can read the full article via the NY Times here.
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