Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. (Robert Smithson)

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Robert Smithson

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