Walter Hopps
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| - | '''Walter (Chico) Hopps''' (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an [[United States|American]] museum director and [[curator]] of [[contemporary art]]. His obituary in the [[Washington Post]] described him as a "sort of a gonzo museum director—elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules." | + | '''Walter Hopps''' (1932 – 2005) was an [[United States|American]] museum director and [[curator]] of [[contemporary art]]. His obituary in the [[Washington Post]] described him as a "sort of a gonzo museum director—elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules." |
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| - | :"Walter Hopps, the host, 31: The director of the [[Pasadena Art Museum]] (PAM), where, the year before, he’d put on an exhibition called “[[New Painting of Common Objects]],” the first American museum show of what would be called [[Pop art]]. Before PAM, he co-ran the [[Ferus Gallery]], which gave [[Andy Warhol]] his first one-man fine-art show—the [[Campbell's soup cans]]."[http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/eve-babitz-marcel-duchamp-chess-nude] | + | |
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Walter Hopps (1932 – 2005) was an American museum director and curator of contemporary art. His obituary in the Washington Post described him as a "sort of a gonzo museum director—elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules."
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