"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]
Part of the "One Work" book series which presents a single work of art written about by a single author. "Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning cry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum's video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. ... [details]
Part of the "One Work" book series which presents a single work of art written about by a single author. "In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal) created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. ... [details]
An examination of the work of Michael Asher by Kirsi Peltomäki. "In 'Situation Aesthetics,' Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). ... [details]
Biographical history of Rauschenberg's global travels and impact by Hiroko Ikegami. "Ikegami focuses on Rauschenberg's stops in four cities: Paris, Venice (where he became the first American to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale), Stockholm, and Tokyo. ... [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]
Issue edited by Karen Beckman, Branden W. Joseph, Reinhold Martin, Tom McDonough, Felicity D. Scott. Essays include "Beyond the Paradigm of Representation : Goethe on Architecture" by Dorothea E. von Mücke; "The Strategic Universality of trans/formation, 1950 - 1952" by Anna Vallye; "Imaginary Apparatus : Film Production and Urban Planning in New York City, 1966 - 1975" by McLain Clutter. ... [details]
"Hanne Darboven's Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) (1980-1983) is an overwhelming and encyclopedic installation consisting of 1,590 works on paper and 19 sculptural objects. The work weaves together cultural, social, and historical references with autobiographical documents, postcards, pinups of film and rock stars, documentary references to the first and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile weaving, a sampling of New York doorways, illustrated covers from news magazines, the contents of an exhibition catalogue devoted to postwar European and American art, a kitschy literary calendar, and extracts from some of Darboven's earlier works. ... [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]
Large-scale exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 15 2007 - March 30, 2008. Traveled to Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany, May 31 - September 14, 2008; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, February 6 - April 20, 2009. ... [details]