"An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project—advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery—that hoodwinked the New York art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines—Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews—for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26 West Fifty-Seventh Street, in the heart of Manhattan's gallery district. ... [details]
Critical theory book on the development of periodicals by artists. Includes index to most of the major titles in appendix as "A Compendium of Artists' Magazines from 1945 to 1989." Includes details on +-0 (Plus Moin Zéro); 0 to 9; 4 Taxis; 8 x 10 Art Portfolio; A (Edition A); ABC No Rio Magazine; Agentzia; Aggie Weston's; Aktual Art; Alfabeta; Amazon Quarterly: A Lesbian Arts Journal; American Living; Analytical Art; An Anthology; Apeïros; Appearances; De Appel; Approches; Aqui; Archibras; Archigram; Ark; Art Aktuell; Art & Project Bulletin; Art Communication Edition (ACE) / Strike; Arte Postale!; Artes Visuales; Artitudes International; Art-Language; Art Now: New York; Art Papers; Artpolice; Artpoll Letter (Aktuális Levél); Art-Rite; Artscribe; Art & Text; Art Workers Newsletter / Artworkers News / Art & Artists; Artzien; Aspen; Assembling; Audio Arts; Ausgabe; Avalanche; Axe; A/YA; Azimuth; The Balloon Newspaper; Benzene; Big Deal; Bijutso Shihyo; Bile; Bit; Bit International; Black Art; Black on White (Cerné na Bílém / Schwarz auf Weiss / Black on White / Noir sur Blanc); Black Phoenix; Blast; Blok; Boa; Bomb; Brumes Blondes; Bulletin From Nothing; Caterpillar; Centerfold / Fuse; Cheval d'Attaque; Choke; Chorus; Chrysalis; Circolare Sinistra; La Città di Riga; Cobra; Collective-Copy; Collective Farm; Commonpress; Control; Cover; Criss-Cross Communications / Criss-Cross Art Communications; Cris Cross Double Cross; Culture Hero; D. ... [details]
"In Under Blue Cup, Rosalind Krauss explores the relation of aesthetic mediums to memory--her own memory having been severely tested by a ruptured aneurysm that temporarily washed away much of her short-term memory. ... [details]
Critical anthology of essays on Dan Graham by Alex Kitnick, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alexander Alberro, Birgit Pelzer, Thierry de Duve, William Kaizen, Jeff Wall, John Miller, Beatriz Colomina. "Since the 1960s, Dan Graham''s heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural theory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, and glass pavilions. ... [details]
"In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899–1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. ... [details]
"When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. ... [details]
"Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. ... [details]
"In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry—of being "good for nothing," in his words—were over, and a brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a founding father of institutional critique, Broodthaers created hundreds of objects, books, films, photographs and exhibitions, including a "fictive" museum of modern art that evolved from an installation in his own home to a massive exhibition of over three hundred works representing eagles. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 15 - March 25, 2009. Traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 25 - October 2009; and to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, November 2009 - February 2010. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
