Best Curator Claudia Schmuckli at Blaffer Art Museum.Best Historic Art Show "Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage" at The Menil Collection.
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Filled with fascinating - and readable - writing about everything from the history of channel changing to stories about hijackers to an essay about ethnography, it was the kind of thing that even people who would never crack open an exhibition catalog would read. The exhibition was organized by the Blaffer Art Museum's director and chief curator Claudia Schmuckli, and was accompanied by a reader that was one of the most engaging exhibition catalogues around.
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Smart, entertaining and darkly comedic, Grimonprez makes insightful and effective social and political points free of humorless harangue. Collaged from the likes of archival news footage, Hollywood films and television commercials, the film presented the evolution of hijacking into a political and media tool. The standout was the artist's stellar film essay, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. This sprawling, video-packed show brought the work of Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez to Houston.