Namedropping
Museum of Old and New Art
2024–2025
Co-Curated with Jane Clark, Jarrod Rawlins, Sarah Wallace and Olivier Varenne
Why are we drawn to certain objects and people? What makes the big names big: Porsche, Picasso or Pompidou? What is the nature of status and why is it useful? Is it just culture, or is there something deeper? Do we have certain ways of caring that our distant ancestors shared, and maybe even benefitted from? Are our choices shaped by culture, or is our culture shaped by nature’s choices?
Danièle Akmen; Carl Andre; Francis Bacon; Hans Bellmer; Polly Borland; Candice Breitz; William Francis Calderon; Chuck Close; Charles Conder; Juan Davila; Jeremy Deller; Wim Delvoye; Simon Denny; Marcel Duchamp; Raoul Dufy; Alexandre Dumas; Elmgreen & Dragset; Ian Fairweather; Anne Ferran; Sylvie Fleury; Donald Friend; Audrey Frost; Guerrilla Girls; Nan Goldin; Lola Greeno; Germaine Greer; Kate Harding; Jenny Holzer; Gordon Hookey; Tom Hunter; Paa Joe; Brian Jungen; Kerry & Co.; Danius Kesminas; Anselm Kiefer; Cassandra Laing; Wang Lei; Sherrie Levine; Li Lihong; Linda Marrinon; Vincent Namatjira; Cornelia Parker; John Perceval; Elizabeth Peyton; Pablo Picasso; Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Steven Rhall; Tom Roberts; Romance Was Born; Tom Sachs; Tino Sehgal; Santiago Sierra; Taryn Simon; Vipoo Srivilasa; Thomas Struth; William Strutt; Darren Sylvester; Ken Thaiday Senior; Jean Tinguely; Vincent van Gogh; Danh Vo; Andy Warhol; Ai Weiwei; Brett Whiteley; Erwin Wurm; He Xiangyu; Huang Yongping; Paul Yore; Michael Zavros; Chen Zhen
