Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, February 11 - June 3, 2012. Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, June 30 - September 30, 2012; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 26, 2012 - January 27, 2013. ... [details]
"In 1979, the artist collective Group Material opened a storefront at East 13th Street on New York's Lower East Side, from which they launched exhibitions—45 in all—that radically overhauled curatorial thought, setting art alongside artifacts, documentary material and storebought objects, within exhibitions that were oriented around topical social concerns. ... [details]
Catalogue published in conjunction with Creative Time's public project, "Democracy in America : The National Campaign", New York, NY, September 2008. Includes essays by Anne Pasternak, Nato Thompson, Yates McKee, Group Material and Daniel Tucker; interviews with Trevor Paglen, Steve Kurtz, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri. ... [details]
Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Marx to Sharks: The Art-Historical '80s," by Thomas Crow; "Unhappy Returns: The Po-Mo Decade," by John Rajchman; "Making Difference: The Legacy of the Culture Wars," by Homi K. ... [details]
Large-scale compendium of artists' writings edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz. Artists include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred H. ... [details]
Letter addressed to Mr. Jerald Ordover on March 29, 1991, from Anne R. Pasternak, the then curator of Real Art Ways. The letter describes Group Material's first large-scale artwork - a bus placard "provocatively addressing the AIDS crisis and the role of the insurance company" and then U. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, January 20 - March 15, 1992. Traveled to Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, June 19 - August 8, 1992 ; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA ; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada ; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, February 12 - April 1993 ; McKissick Museum, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, May 15 - July 15, 1993 ; Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, September 3 - October 23, 1993 ; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, November 6, 1992 - December 23, 1993 ; Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY, January - February 1994. ... [details]
Edited by Joan Copjec, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson. Essays "The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum," by Rosalind Krauss; "Rossellini: Woman as Symptom of Man," by Slavoj Žižek; "Fetish Envy," by Marjorie Garber; "Ragnarök of Illusion: Richard Wagner's "Mystical Abyss" at Bayreuth," by Beat Wyss; "Free, Single, and Disengaged: Listening Pleasure and the Popular Music Object," by John Corbett; "Images of Decay: Photography in the Picturesque Tradition," by Wolfgang Kemp; "AIDS Timeline," by Group Material. [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "Interview Sigmar Polke," by Bice Curiger; "Modernism And Günther Förg's Photographs," by John Caldwell; "At The Crossroads Of Disciplines," by Catherine Queloz; "We Are Not Afraid / An Impossible Comparison," by Wilfried Dickhoff; "Philip Taaffe: History Is In The Making," by Jeff Perrone; "A Propos Philip Taaffe," by Edmund White; "Fragment On Ornament," by Francesco Pellizzi; "Philip Of Naples And The Evocative Geometry Of History," by G. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "On Location: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on Producing Ellis Island," by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; "Special Effects: Carol Squiers on Photo Allure," by Carol Squiers; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "The Cave: Michael Tarantino on Krzysztof Kieslowski," by Michael Tarantino; "Head to Toe: Valerie Steele on Retro Fashion," by Valerie Steele; "Curies' Children: Vilém Flusser on Art and Politics," by Vilém Flusser; "Exits and Entrances: Joan Acocella on Martha Clarke's 'Endangered Species,'" by Joan Acocella; "A Drawing Page: A Project for Artforum," by Jonathan Borofsky; "Read Read Rosens," by Judith Russi Kirshner; "Skyscrapers, the Late Imperial Mob," by Max Kozloff; "AIDS Timeline: A Project for Day Without Art 1990," by Group Material; "Industrious Art," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Medium Hot: Alberto Burri," by Massimo Carboni; "High Art Lowdown: A Project for Artforum," by Art Spiegelman; "Ryder on the Storm," by Bill Jensen; "Art or the Caress: A Project for Artforum," By Aimee Morgana; "Off Kilter: The Citizens' Theatre," by Michael Coveney. ... [details]
