How William Wegman Turned His Dog Into a Conceptual Artist
ItsNewsToYou.me (WordPress blog) - April 09, 2018
Sometimes losing a job is a good thing. Or at least that seems to be what happened to William Wegman, when his contract to teach in the art department didn’t get renewed by the University of Wisconsin – Madison back in 1970.
Like so many others Midwesterners, he packed up and moved to sunny Los Angeles, where the contemporary art scene was just starting to take off.
It ended up being a career-making move that he didn’t see coming. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism”, on view through July 15, harkens back to the three years that Wegman lived in SoCal. Check out the photos on our Flickr site.