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Walter "Chico" Hopps (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an American museum director, gallerist, and curator of contemporary art. Hopps helped bring Los Angeles post-war artists to prominence during the 1960s, and later went on to redefine practices of curatorial installation internationally.
Walter Hopps, a leading curator of 20th-century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 72 and lived in Houston and Venice, Calif....
13 ago 2023 · Hopps’s impressive curatorial record constitutes the framework of The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, which features more than 130 artworks by 70 artists, many of which are recent or promised gifts to the museum from Caroline Huber and the Estate of Walter Hopps.
19 apr 2023 · Why the Menil Collection’s Walter Hopps Exhibition Is an Important Must-See. On view through August 13, the presentation traces the trajectory of his groundbreaking career. By Michael Slenske. April 19, 2023. Edward Kienholz, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959.
WALTER HOPPS HOPPS HOPPS. IN CALVIN TOMKINS’ 1991 NEW YORKER PROFILE “A Touch for the Now,” curator Walter Hopps comes across as an eccentric maverick. We learn of his preferred schedule (his workday begins not long before sundown and stretches into the morning hours) and near-mythic disappearing acts (his elusiveness prompted employees ...
18 mag 2023 · Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps spotted, acquired, encouraged or enabled as a ...
Franklin Sirmans. Save PDF. In any discussion of modern and contemporary art in Los Angeles, renowned curator Walter Hopps (1932–2005) must play a central role.
