We went to the Alice Coltrane exhibit at the Hammer Museum, and it was both wonderful and frustrating. I may have more to say about the exhibition as a whole—I ended up bringing home not just the catalog but also a reissue of her spiritual memoir and a biography. For now, though, I just want to complain about one thing: why do so many museum shows put print materials (like these rad contact sheets) behind glass cases where if you bend to examine them you cast multiple, deep shadows?
Exhibit designers should be thinking about lighting and shadows and reflections and glare as some of their most key concerns! (I love complaining about professions I know very little about…)
