By John Paul Stapleton Boston, MA - In 1999, Lee Mingwei had his first solo residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum putting on what he calls, “the Living Room Project” where a host can bring their collection and give a presentation about it. Now, the Gardner has a room specifically designed as a Living Room for his project and he recently returned to recruit new hosts to show off their collections. The idea came about just after Mingwei graduated from his MFA program at Yale in 1997 and was featured in a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City a year later. Jen Gross, the Gardner’s contemporary curator at the time, came to Mingwei after seeing his work in this show and asked him to be a resident artist. After proposing and deciding against his first idea, Mingwei got inspired to make the Living Room Project happen by hanging out with the staff and … [Read more...] about Lee Mingwei: The Living Room Project at the Gardner Museum