Learning to Love You More

Learning to Love You More (LTLYM) was a 7 year long crowdsourced art project, where over 8,000 people posted work they had created in response to a series of prompts.[1][2] The project was created in 2002 by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, with a website created by Yuri Ono.[3] In May 2009, the authors discontinued the project, ending with a final assignment asking people to "Say Goodbye."[4] In 2010 SFMOMA acquired the work.[5] The work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Rhodes College in Memphis, the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[6]

Book edit

In 2007 July and Fletcher published the book Learning to Love You More, (published by Prestel) which features selections from the website. Ken Johnson of the New York Times called it " delightful, often funny and at times surprisingly moving."[7] Publishers Weekly wrote that "The resonance of the work... is sadly diminished in book form, where a willing lack of organization often isolates contributions from the same assignment."[8]

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  1. ^ Onstad, Katrina (2011-07-14). "Miranda July, The Make-Believer". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  2. ^ "Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July Discuss Learning to Love You More, 2011". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  3. ^ "Learning to Love You More". Rhizome. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  4. ^ A companion to digital art. Paul, Christiane. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA. 2 March 2016. ISBN 9781118475218. OCLC 925426732.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Beryl, Graham (2016). New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art. Routledge. pp. 147–149. ISBN 9781317088660.
  6. ^ "Learning to Love You More". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  7. ^ "Critics' Picks - Art and Architecture Books - 2007". The New York Times. 2007-12-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  8. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher, Author, Miranda July, Author, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Essay by Prestel Publishing $19.95 (158p) ISBN 978-3-7913-3733-3". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-08-20.

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