Wu Ting
How would you interpret ‘hang’ in the context? Here’s where you and I come in. They recruited my old boss for the job, Leroy Davidson from the Walker. He only got 50 thousand clams to work with but he’s done a killer job, Leroy chose everything himself. He’s fed up with the Europeans sniggering about heart-throbbing landscapes and the American Scene, so he decided to give them an eyeful. Seventy-nine paintings, mostly Modern Art: Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, it’s a killer. Even Goodrich at the Whitney says so. We’re hanging it here in New York for the summer and then it moves to the National for a few weeks. Leroy says Congress needs to see what American Art looks like, before we send it off. How would you interpret ‘hang’ in the sentence: We’re hanging it here in New York for the summer…? Does the narrator mean they’re hanging the paintings in some museum in New York? Thanks!
Dec 26, 2014 8:19 AM
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Yep that's what it sounds like to me.
December 26, 2014
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Yes, I agree... I guess "it" refers to the whole exhibition of paintings.
December 26, 2014
Thank you.
December 26, 2014
yes, you are perfectly right, they will literally be hanging / placing the things there
December 26, 2014
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