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"You don't go to the Alternative
Museum to check on the modernist mainstream. You go there
to see how the mainstream has spilled into a delta... like
all deltas is constantly reshaping itself, and rechanneling
the mixed currents that flow through it. In times like these
mapping such shifting terrain is more important than ever,
since nobody knows where art its headed, but everybody knows
that its moving in a lot of directions at once - and fast."
--Robert Storr, Curator Museum of Modern Art, 1992
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| TAM in the
News |
ART
REVIEW, APR/2001
"The ethos of The Alternative Museum is particularly
amenable to electronic
space, with the web’s lack of geographical boundaries
allowing TAM to
keep alive the notion of the “global groove” which
Paik espoused back in
the 1970s..."
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ARTTHROB, SEP/2000
(www.artthrob.co.za)
"The Alternative Museum provides a global
forum where all nations celebrate and embrace their artistic
and cultural differences. This site gives artists opportunities
to sharpen their creative imagination while transforming
art into new and preciously unimaginable forms. Curators
from around the world decide what will be exhibited in
the e-museum, which consists of artists working in all
types of media, commenting on a variety of social issues..."
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NEW
YORK TIMES, JUN/2000
(www.nytimes.com)
"Art Museum Abandons Its Real-World
Space
The Alternative Museum had no alternative. After 25 years
of showing art in
its downtown-Manhattan galleries, the museum has relocated
to
cyberspace..."
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TEMACELESTE, JUN/2000
"TAM, or
rather, The Alternative Museum, is a no-profit artistic
institution founded in 1975 and located on Broadway,
New
York. The main aim of The Alternative Museum is to explore
new ways of presenting contemporary art and culture..."
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