Institutional Critique : An Anthology of Artists' Writings

Alexander Alberro, Blake Stimson, Wieslaw Borowski, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, Hans Haacke, Robert Smithson, John Knight, Graciela Carnevale, Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Art Workers Coalition, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Michael Asher, Mel Ramsden, Adrian Piper, The Guerrilla Girls, Laibach, Silvia Kolbowski, Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson, Mark Dion, Maria Eichhorn, Critical Art Ensemble, Bureau d’Études, WochenKlausur, The Yes Men, Hito Steyerl, Andreas Siekmann

"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]

Artforum

Vol. 47, No. 2 (October 2008)

Tim Griffin, Bruce Jenkins, Jason Smith, Cory Arcangel, Amy Taubin, P. Adams Sitney, Huey Copeland, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Markus Miessen, Carol Armstrong, Tauba Auerbach, Christine Mehring, John Kelsey, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Douglas Crimp, Nick Mauss, Jessica Morgan, Franz West, Jeffrey Weiss, Martin Herbert, Jordan Kantor, David Anfam, Caroline A. Jones, Robert Pincus-Witten, David Frankel, Johanna Burton, Nick Stillman, Joshua Decter, Donald Kuspit, Suzanne Hudson, David Velasco, Frances Richard, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Caroline Busta, Fionn Meade, Michael Wilson, Brian Sholis, Tom Breidenbach, Francine Koslow Miller, Nord Wennerstrom, Philip Auslander, James Yood, Michelle Grabner, Glen Helfand, Michael Ned Holte, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Christopher Miles, Gilda Williams, Diana Baldon, Barry Schwabsky, Lillian Davies, Nuit Banai, Daniel Boese, Wouter Davidts, Noemi Smolik, Hans Rudolf Reust, Valérie Knoll, Alessandra Pioselli, Cathryn Drake, Martí Peran, Brigitte Huck, Marek Bartelik, Zehra Jumabhoy, Mathieu Borysevicz, David Carrier, Anthony Gardner

Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Editor's letter: Art and Agency," by Tim Griffin; "Passages: Bruce Jenkins on Bruce Conner," by Bruce Jenkins; "Books: Jason Smith on Branden W. Joseph's 'Beyond the Dream Syndicate,'" by Jason Smith; "Cory Arcangel on the San Francisco Tape Music Center," by Cory Arcangel; "Film: Amy taubin on 'Ballast' and 'Wendy and Lucy,'" by Amy Taubin; "Film: P. ... [details]

Artforum

Vol. 46, No. 7 (March 2008)

Tim Griffin, Barrett Watten, Lytle Shaw, James Quandt, Amy Taubin, Sven Lütticken, Damon Krukowski, Brian Sholis, Virginia Rutledge, Nick Mauss, Ken Okiishi, Mark Godfrey, Robin Maconie, La Monte Young, Irvine Arditti, Morton Subotnick, , Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Maryanne Amacher, Björk, Pamela M. Lee, Boris Groys, Margarita Tupitsyn, Ali Subotnick, Michael Archer, Christopher Bollen, Sarah K. Rich, Zoe Leonard, Martin Herbert, Anne Ellegood, Frances Richard, David Frankel, Robert Pincus-Witten, Suzanne Hudson, Donald Kuspit, Jaleh Mansoor, Jeffrey Kastner, David Velasco, Johanna Burton, Michael Wilson, Nicole Rudick, Rachel Churner, Kyle Bentley, Nick Stillman, Lisa Turvey, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Francine Koslow Miller, Anthony Elms, James Yood, Christopher Bedford, Glen Helfand, Christopher Miles, Dan Adler, Rachel Withers, Barry Schwabsky, John-Paul Stonard, Marek Bartelik, Lars Bang Larsen, Catrin Lorch, Brigitte Huck, Hans Rudolf Reust, Giorgio Verzotti, Alessandra Pioselli, Francesco Stocchi, Ida Panicelli, Pablo Llorca, Martí Peran, Catherine Cafopoulos, María Gainza

Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Editor's Letter: Social Realities," by Tim Griffin; "Books: Barrett Watten on Lytle Shaw's 'Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie,'" by Barrett Watten; "Film: James quandt on Alexander Sokurov's 'Alexandra,'" by James Quandt; "Film: Amy Taubin on Alexander Sokurov's 'Alexandra,'" by Amy Taubin; "Film: Sven Lütticken on Werner Herzog," by Sven Lütticken; "Sound: Damon Krukowski on Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb," by Damon Krukowski; "On Site: Brian Sholis on Regional Nonprofits," by Brian Sholis; "Slant: Virginia Rutledge on Christoph Büchel and Mass MoCA," by Virginia Rutledge; "Top Ten," by Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi; "Mirror Displacements: The Art of Zoe Leonard," by Mark Godfrey; "Music of the Spheres: Reflections on Karlheinz Stockhausen," by Robin Maconie and La Monte Young, with Irvine Arditti, Morton Subotnick, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Maryanne Amacher, and Björk; "Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij: A Portfolio," by Pamela M. ... [details]

Artforum

Vol. 46, No. 3 (November 2007)

Tim Griffin, Tom Holert, Claire Bishop, T.J. Demos, Gregg Bordowitz, David Frankel, Brian Sholis, Eugenia Bell, Johanna Burton, Nick Stillman, Kyle Bentley, Donald Kuspit, Michael Wilson, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Rachel Churner, Suzanne Hudson, Frances Richard, Paul Galvez, James Yood, Anthony Elms, Kyle MacMillan, Glen Helfand, Chris Kraus, Christopher Miles, Christopher Bedford, Michael Ned Holte, Dan Adler, María Gainza, Barry Schwabsky, Gilda Williams, Claire Moulène, André Rottmann, Noemi Smolik, Astrid Wege, Eva Scharrer, Elizabeth Janus, Brigitte Huck, Marek Bartelik, Sven Lütticken, Pablo Llorca, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Robert Storr, Amy Sillman, Seymour Chatman, Amy Taubin, Jack Bankowsky, Christoph Cox, Daniel Birnbaum, Damon Krukowski, Elizabeth Mangini, Pawel Althamer, Anne M. Wagner, Mark Wigley, Douglas Crimp, Yilmaz Dziewior, John Kelsey, P. Adams Sitney, Catherine Wood, Mary Heilmann

Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Editor's Letter: Custom Made," by Tim Griffin; "Passages: Robert Storr and Amy Sillman on Elizabeth Murray," by Robert Storr and Amy Sillman; "Passages: Seymour Chatman on Michelangelo Antonioni," by Seymour Chatman; "Film: Amy Taubin on Jia Zhang-ke," by Amy Taubin; "On Site: Jack Bankowsky on Jason Rhoades," by Jack Bankowsky; "Books: Christoph Cox on Sound Art," by Christoph Cox; "Media: Daniel Birnbaum on OEI," by Daniel Birnbaum; "Sound: Damon Krukowski on Teiji Ito," by Damon Krukowski; "Slant: Elizabeth Mangini on Arte Povera," by Elizabeth Mangini; "Top Ten," by Pawel Althamer; "Field Trips: The Art of Mary Heilmann," by Anne M. ... [details]

Fast Forward : Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art

Maria de Corral, John R. Lane, Frances Colpitt, Mark Rosenthal, Allan Schwartzman, Charles Wylie, Vito Acconci, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Mamma Andersson, Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Ant Farm, Janine Antoni, Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, James Brooks, Coosje van Bruggen, Chris Burden, Alberto Burri, Scott Burton, Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, James Casebere, Maurizio Cattelan, Vija Celmins, Bruce Conner, Tony Cragg, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Thomas Demand, Richard Diebenkorn, Rineke Dijkstra, Mark di Suvero, Willie Doherty, Peter Doig, Carroll Dunham, William Eggleston, Olafur Eliasson, Luciano Fabro, Vernon Fisher, Dan Flavin, Saul Fletcher, Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Lucian Freud, Tom Friedman, Isa Genzken, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Arshile Gorky, Dan Graham, Philip Guston, Zaha Hadid, David Hammons, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Mona Hatoum, Michael Heizer, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Robert Irwin, Christian Jankowski, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Franz Kline, Jeff Koons, Jannis Kounellis, Lee Krasner, Guillermo Kuitca, Yayoi Kusama, Wolfgang Laib, Liz Larner, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Richard Long, Morris Louis, Robert Mangold, Piero Manzoni, Christian Marclay, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Allan McCollum, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Mariko Mori, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ron Mueck, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman, Shirin Neshat, Nic Nicosia, Claes Oldenburg, Tony Oursler, Laura Owens, Nam June Paik, Blinky Palermo, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Raymond Pettibon, Elisabeth Peyton, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Jackson Pollock, Richard Prince, Martin Puryear, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Ray, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Matthew Ritchie, Mark Rothko, Thomas Ruff, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Anri Sala, Doris Salcedo, Julião Sarmento, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Cindy Sherman, Paul Sietsema, David Smith, Kiki Smith, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Valeska Soares, Jennifer Steinkamp, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Myron Stout, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Rufino Tamayo, Rosemarie Trockel, Anne Truitt, Richard Tuttle, Luc Tuymans, Cy Twombly, Bill Viola, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Sue Williams, Jane and Louise Wilson, Christopher Wool

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 21, 2006 - May 20, 2007. Curated by Maria de Corral and Charles Wylie. Edited and with contributions by Maria de Corral and John R. ... [details]

Curating Subjects

Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen, Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech, Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta, Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson, Mick Wilson, Paul O'Neill

Critical theory. "Introduction by Paul O'Neill, Annie Fletcher. This sleek and serious anthology of new curatorial writing features contributions from leading international curators, artists and critics including Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen & Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta & Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson and Mick Wilson. ... [details]

Stardust ou la dernière frontière

Frank Lamy, Alexia Fabre, Daniel Kunt, Guy Allott, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Nicolas Baier, Gilles Barbier, Neal Beggs, Davide Bertocchi, Pascal Broccolichi, Etienne Chambaud, Claude Closky, Tony Cragg, Julien Discrit, Erró, Sylvie Fleury, Claude Gassian, Trevor Gould, Serge Guillou, Andreas Gursky, Vincent Lamouroux, Roberto Martinez, Philippe Mayaux, Paul McDevitt, Jorge Méndez-Blake, Aleksandra Mir, Joachim Mogarra, Bernard Moninot, Jacques Monory, Olivier Mosset, Nicolas Moulin, Melik Ohanian, Roman Ondák, Bruno Peinado, Didier Rittener, Gwen Rouvillois, Thomas Ruff, Stéphane Sautour, Yinka Shonibare, Bridget Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Turrell, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Mark Wallinger, Jane & Louise Wilson, Jordan Wolfson

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 5, 2007 - January 13, 2008. Texts by Frank Lamy, Alexia Fabre, Daniel Kunth. Exhibition theme based loosely on David Bowie's persona "Ziggy Stardust" and his intersection with stelar science and technology. ... [details]

Artforum

Vol. 45, No. 4 (December 2006)

Tim Griffin, John Waters, Amy Taubin, James Wuandt, Barbara London, Jonathan Romney, John Baldessari, Christine Mehring, James Meyer, Claire Bishop, Sven Lütticken, Chris Kraus, Terry Eagleton, Yvonne Rainer, Greil Marcus, Josiah McElheny, Sylvère Lotringer, Amy Sillman, Francis Alÿs, Eric Wesley, Richard Tuttle, Su-Mei Tse, Vito Acconci, Cory Arcangel, Kalup Linzy, Michael Rakowitz, Jim Shaw, Annette Messager, Thomas Demand, Lara Favaretto, Jennifer Bornstein, Rebecca Warren, Mircea Cantor, Damián Ortega, Miranda Lichtenstein, Carolee Schneemann, Rob Pruitt, Donald Baechler, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Hirschhorn, Suzanne Lacy, Kristin Baker, Rachel Harrison, Marine Hugonnier, Mark Bradford, Evan Holloway, Ulla von Brandenburg, Luisa Lambri, Ryan Trecartin, Luc Tuymans, Terence Koh, Philippe Decrauzat, Yvonne Rainer, Daria Martin, Pierre Bismuth, Michael S. Riedel, Tamy Ben-Tor, Andrea Zittel, Michael Rovner, Mika Rottenberg, Jordan Wolfson, Christopher Williams, Cao Fei, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gedi Sibony, Matthew Higgs, Rachel Kushner, Melanie Gilligan, Massimiliano Gioni, Nina Möntmann, Philip Tinari, Daniel Birnbaum, Chrissie Iles, Thomas Crow, David Rimanelli, Jessica Morgan, Lynne Cooke, Mike Kelley, Elizabeth Schambelan, Francesco Bonami, Carol Armstrong, Thomas Lawson, Alison M. Gingeras, Bruce Hainley, Okwui Enwezor, Rita Kersting, Yve-Alain Bois, Suzanne Hudson, Johanna Burton, Brian Sholis, Jan Avgikos, Martha Schwendener, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lisa Turvey, Michael Wilson, Donald Kuspit, David Velasco, Nick Stillman, Emily Hall, Francine Koslow Miller, Nord Wennerstrom, James Yood, Glen Helfand, Jan Tumlir, Michael Ned Holte, Christopher Miles, Dan Adler, Marek Bartelik, Barry Schwabsky, Miguel Amado, Paola Noé, Jeff Rian, Miriam Rosen, Hans Rudolf Reust, Sabine B. Vogel, Noemi Smolik, Harald Fricke, Jennifer Allen, Eva Scharrer, Ronald Jones, Gilda Williams, Rachel Withers, Midori Matsui, Shinyoung Chung

Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Film: Best of 2006," by John Waters, Amy Taubin, James Wuandt, Barbara London, Jonathan Romney; "Music: Best of 2006," by John Baldessari, Christine Mehring, James Meyer, Claire Bishop, Sven Lütticken, Chris Kraus, Terry Eagleton, Yvonne Rainer, Greil Marcus, Josiah McElheny, Sylvère Lotringer; "The Artists' Artists," Amy Sillman, Francis Alÿs, Eric Wesley, Richard Tuttle, Su-Mei Tse, Vito Acconci, Cory Arcangel, Kalup Linzy, Michael Rakowitz, Jim Shaw, Annette Messager, Thomas Demand, Lara Favaretto, Jennifer Bornstein, Rebecca Warren, Mircea Cantor, Damián Ortega, Miranda Lichtenstein, Carolee Schneemann, Rob Pruitt, Donald Baechler, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Hirschhorn, Suzanne Lacy, Kristin Baker, Rachel Harrison, Marine Hugonnier, Mark Bradford, Evan Holloway, Ulla von Brandenburg, Luisa Lambri, Ryan Trecartin, Luc Tuymans, Terence Koh, Philippe Decrauzat, Yvonne Rainer, Daria Martin, Pierre Bismuth, Michael S. ... [details]

Artforum

Vol. 45, No. 1 (September 2006)

Tim Griffin, Paul Griffiths, James Quandt, John Kelsey, Christoph Cox, Steven Henry Madoff, David Joselit, Liam Gillick, Matias Faldbakken, Martin Herbert, Valerie Smith, Jeffrey Kastner, Weng-Choy Lee, Hal Foster, Michael Fried, Tim Griffin, Mel Bochner, Martin Herbert, Alexander Alberro, James Quandt, T.J. Demos, Helen Molesworth, Thomas Lawson, Mark Godfrey, Barry Schwabsky, Frances Richard, Lori Waxman, Julia Bryan-Wilson, David Velasco, Michael Wilson, Suzanne Hudson, David Frankel, Emily Hall, Ida Panicelli, Brian Sholis, Martha Schwendener, Nord Wennerstrom, James Yood, Michael Odom, Ellen Berkovitch, Jon Raymond, Johanna Burton, Glen Helfand, Bruce Hainley, Michael Ned Holte, Christopher Miles, Amra Brooks, Trevor Mahovsky, Miguel Amado, Pablo Llorca, Juan Vicente Aliaga, Filippo Romeo, Marco Meneguzzo, Miriam Rosen, Eva Scharrer, Ronald Jones, Jennifer Allen, Sven Lütticken, Gilda Williams, Jon Bywater, David Spalding, Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno

Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Paul Griffiths on György Ligeti," by Paul Griffiths; "James Quandt and John Kelsey on Jean-Luc Godard at the Centre Pompidou," by James Quandt and John Kelsey; "Christoph Cox on 'Sonambient,'" by Christoph Cox; "Tech: Steven Henry Madoff on Marcel van Eeden and Aneta Grzeszykowska," by Steven Henry Madoff; "Media: David Joselit on Jenny Holzer and 'Consider This. ... [details]