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  • Art

    Time Out New York / Issue 653 : Apr 2–8, 2008
    Culture report: gatekeepers

    How a show is made

    The splashy events and exhibits you lap up as greedy consumers take months—often years—to pull together. We trace one current art show from birth to afterlife.

    By Sophie Fels

    Cai Guo-Qiang retrospective Guggenheim
    Photograph: Jeff Gurwin

    Chinese-born contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s work invokes, according to a Guggenheim press release, “temporal dislocation…where we feel ourselves to be at the beginning and the end of life on earth.” That kind of illusory style takes years to hone. Turns out, so do Cai's works themselves. In a prior TONY story, we focused on one piece in Cai’s current Guggenheim survey, following it from conception (on a visit to Berlin) to installation (dangling over a ramp in Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda). Then we got to thinking about how an entire, museumwide show like this one—titled "I Want to Believe"—comes together. As you might imagine, the answer is slowly.

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