THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS: SMU EXHIBITION UNCOVERS SOME MYSTERIES ABOUT A ‘SMALL ARMY OF WOMEN FACT-CHECKERS’ IN EARLY DAYS OF TIME MAGAZINE
Monday, December 7, 2020 at 7:32PM Review of Against The Best Possible Sources, curated by Olivia Smith
Published on www.dallasnews.com; Oct 24, 2019 by Lee Cullum
These details from a 1984 research manual were among the images found by photographer Elizabeth Moran in the archives of Time Inc. (Elizabeth Moran)
Hamon Arts Library owes special thanks to Olivia Smith, an SMU alumna and director of Magenta Plains, a contemporary art gallery in New York, for spotting Moran and bringing her work to Dallas. As curator, Smith felt drawn to the way Moran was “diving so far into projects … driven more by research, centered on using texts and text sources.”
Smith also liked the connection to journalism and the opportunity to broaden the show to other disciplines for students while anchoring the work in “discrete objects” — old bookshelves cast off by the Hamon “diagonally cutting through the gallery” and “bookends fabricated by Elizabeth,” evoking New York’s 42nd Street Library there at the Hamon.