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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,...
13 de ago. de 2023 · Once dubbed “the marvelous mad maven of modern art in America,” Walter Hopps (1932–2005) estimated that he had curated some 250 exhibitions in his 50+ year career. Hopps’s impressive curatorial rec...
19 de abr. de 2023 · Currently on view at the Menil Collection is The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, which features more than 130 artworks by 70 artists, many of which are among some 600 promised gifts to the museum from the Estate of Walter Hopps and his widow, the artist and curator Caroline Huber.
18 de may. de 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 ...
- Susan Stamberg
In any discussion of modern and contemporary art in Los Angeles, renowned curator Walter Hopps (1932–2005) must play a central role.
By Ann Temkin. WHEN WALTER HOPPS died this past March at seventy-two, he had been organizing exhibitions for more than half a century. He began while still in school and continued right up through the spring, when he guest-curated a George Herms show at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
