Whitney Ponders Problem of Replication in Modern Art

“How do you acquire or display a work of performance art that exists only in the form of an instruction sheet? What should conservators do about works that are deteriorating because they were made from unstable materials, such as neon, or sharks? If you want to exhibit a huge work of conceptual art that is housed at another museum, does it make sense to pay for shipping when you could probably just get permission to make a copy?”

via Copy That! Wait, Don’t. Whitney Ponders Problem of Replication in Modern Art | The New York Observer.

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