Second Thoughts
March 16-30, April 13-27, and May 11-25, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Opening receptions:
Sunday, March 16, 1 :00-4:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 13, 1 :00-4:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 11, 1 :00-4:00 p.m.
Artists: Rita Ackermann, David Altmejd, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Robert Beck, John Bock, Alighiero e Boetti, Cosimo von Bonin, Jonathan Borofsky, David Bunn, Gary Burnley, Scott Burton, John Cage, Paul Chan, Cecelia Condit, John Currin, Marcelline Delbecq, Donna Dennis, Carroll Dunham, Valie Export, Fischli and Weiss, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Graves, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Rachel Harrison, Matthew Higgs, Gary Hill, , Thomas Hirschhorn, Desiree Holman, Jamie lsenstein, Valerie Jaudon, Donald Judd, Martin Kippenberger, W. lmi Knoebel, Christopher Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Kushner, Carter Kustera, Sean Landers, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Ardele Lister, Robert Longo, Kim MacConnel, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, Virgil Marti, Martina Mullaney, Allan Mccollum, Shana Moulton, Dennis Oppenheim, Gabriel Orozco, Slinky Palermo, Jorge Pardo, A. R. Penck, Adrian Piper, Seth Price, Robin Rhode, Tom Roda, Peter Saul, Ilene Segalove, Cindy Sherman, Ned Smyth, Rosemarie Trockel, Nicola Tyson, Kelley Walker, Joe Zucker
Curators: Mireille Bourgeois, Summer Guthery, Ana'i's Lellouche, Christina Linden, Katerina Llanes, Gene McHugh, Fionn Meade, Kate Menconeri, Zeynep Oz, Marion Ritter, Bartholomew Ryan, Hajnalka Somogyi, Wendy Vogel, and Jess Wilcox
Second Thoughts presents exhibition as revision. Curated by 14 first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, it is a direct response to Exhibitionism (October 20, 2007 - February 3, 2008), a series of autonomous and idiosyncratic micro-exhibitions that were curated by Matthew Higgs for each of the 16 galleries in the Hessel Museum of Art. By engaging amplification, erasure, extension, and redress, Second Thoughts seeks to alter the strategies utilized by Higgs in Exhibitionism to progressively revise the entire exhibition.
In the normal process of exhibition making there is no time for second thoughts; the exhibition is struggled over, installed, and the· institution then moves on. Beginning March 16, three divergent but overlapping approaches to intervention will be made in response to Matthew Higgs's Exhibitionism: material and physical interventions in the Museum using the Hessel Collection; temporal interventions and responses made via artist commission and performance; and discursive interventions in the form of ongoing dialogues and a panel discussion. Unfolding over the duration of Second Thoughts, nearly all of the galleries in Exhibitionism will present new configurations of works from the Hessel Collection. This fresh series of exhibitions turns over and updates the galleries with revisions ranging from the subtle to the wholesale.