''Learning to Love You More'' (''LTLYM'') was an American
crowdsourced art project, where over 8,000 people posted work they had created in response to a series of prompts over a span of seven years. The project was created in 2002 by
Miranda July and
Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher (born 1967 in Santa Maria, California) is an American social practice and relational aesthetics artist and professor, living in Portland, Oregon.
Biography
Harrell Fletcher was born in 1967 in Santa Maria, California and att ...
, with a website created by Yuri Ono. In May 2009, the authors discontinued the project, ending with a final assignment asking people to "Say Goodbye."
In 2010, SFMOMA acquired the work. The work has been exhibited at
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,
Rhodes College in Memphis, the
Aurora Picture Show
An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), also commonly known as the polar lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of br ...
in Houston, The
Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, the
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Established in 1998, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a contemporary art center in San Francisco, California, US, and part of the California College of the Arts. It holds exhibitions, lectures, and symposia, releases publications, and ...
in San Francisco, and the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Book
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." 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."
Notes
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External links
Official websiteRhizome.org Artbase entrySFMOMA Artwork page
Crowdsourcing
Prestel Publishing books