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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 est un commissaire d'exposition américain né le 3 mai 1932 en Californie et mort à Los Angeles le 20 mars 2005. Il a organisé plus de cent expositions d'art moderne aux États-Unis consacrées essentiellement à l'art du XXe siècle, dont la première rétrospective consacré au pop art.
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...
18 mai 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 ...
An exhibition that explores the vision and legacy of Walter Hopps, a pioneering curator of contemporary art and co-founder of Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. See works by Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Joe Goode, Edward Kienholz, and more from the Menil Collection.
19 avr. 2023 · Learn about the life and legacy of Walter Hopps, a visionary curator, gallerist, and museum director who worked with artists like Duchamp, Kienholz, and Warhol. See highlights from his collection and career at the Menil Collection in Houston.
As director of the Pasadena Museum of Art (1963–67), Hopps mounted an impressive roster of exhibitions, including the first U.S. retrospectives of Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell and the first museum overview of American Pop art (“New Paintings of Common Objects”)—not to mention Marcel Duchamp’s first one-man museum show.
