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Chaos in art as 'Chain Letter' goes on show in Los Angeles
We take a look at the exhibition that every artist in Los Angeles wanted to be inRelated Event
A 'Chain Letter' exhibition. What were they thinking?!
Phaidon.com spoke to curators Doug Harvey and Christian Cummings who "wanted an exhibition that would include every 'admired' artist on the planet"
"We wanted an exhibition that would include every 'admired' artist on the planet," Cummings told Phaidon.com.
The inaugural Chain Letter exhibition opened in 2006, when Cummings and Harvey each invited ten artists they admire to showcase work and asked them to each ask ten more artists; it is now an annual and varied exhibition. Harvey says: "I was conscious of lobbing single invites into separate densely interconnected populations to spread the admiration as wide as possible."
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