Fred Wilson : A Critical Reader

Fred Wilson, Doro Globus

A compendium of texts on and by Fred Wilson edited by Doro Globus. "An anthology of critical texts and interviews with the fascinating American conceptual artist Fred Wilson, who describes himself as of 'African, Native American, European and Amerindian' descent. ... [details]

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]

On Being an Exhibition

Joseph del Pesco, Alexander Alberro, Woody Allen, Arjun Appadurai, Michael Asher, Bela Balazs, Robert Barry, Bernard of Chartres, Bill Brown, Daniel Buren, William Bourroughs, John Cage, Roger Caillois, Germano Celant, Michel de Certeau, Gordon Matta Clark, Guy Debord, John Dewey, Clive Dilnot, Terry Eagleton, Andrea Fraser, Alfred Gell, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Gondry, Elizabeth Grosz, J. Hoberman, Harry Houdini, Ivan Karp, Fred Wilson, Frederick J. Kiesler, Miwon Kwon, Louise Lawler, Félix Leclerc, Bruce Lee, Henry Lefebvre, Jonathan Lethem, James Lingwood, Francisco Lopez, Karl Marx, Mario Merz, Vladimir Nabokov, Carsten Nicolai, Scott Oliver, Georges Perec, Max Perutz, Pet Shop Boys, Dimitri Shostakovich, Robert Smithson, Micheal Taussig, Sven Olav Wallenstein, Paul Virillio, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio, BLG, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Valerie Hegarty, Isola and Norzi, Germaine Koh, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan, Anne Walsh, Chris Kubick, Lee Walton, Raimundas Malasaukas, Meredith Johnson

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 12 - December 8, 2007. Essay by Joseph del Pesco. Artists include BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Germaine Koh, Valerie Hegarty, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan and Anne Walsh. ... [details]

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805 - 2005 : 200 Years of Excellence

[Softback Version]

Mark Hain, Michael J. Lewis, Stephen May, Ronald J. Onorato, Kim Sajet, Peter M. Saylor, Alex Baker, Cheryl Leibold, Lynn Marsden-Atlass, Kevin Richards, William Rudolph, Edwin Austen Abbey, Malvin Marr Albright, Washington Allston, Benny Andrews, Thomas Anshutz, George Ault, Milton Avery, William Bailey, Joseph A. Bally, Will Barnet, Bo Bartlett, Leonard Baskin, Romare Bearden, Cecilia Beaux, George Bellows, Henry Benbridge, Frank Benson, Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Birch, William Russell Birch, Isabel Bishop, Morris Blackburn, Julius Bloch, Oscar Bleumner, Lee Bontecou, Hugh Breckenridge, George de Forest Brush, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Alexander Stirling Calder, Arthur B. Carles, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Catlett, William Merritt Chase, Cephas G. Childs, James Claypoole, James Clomney, John Singleton Copley, Kenyon Cox, Thomas Crawford, Jasper Cropsey, Charles Curran, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Vincent Desiderio, Richard Diebenkorn, Thomas Doughty, Arthur G. Dove, Rackstraw Downes, Guy Pène du Bois, Asher B. Durand, Frank Duvenck, Thomas Eakins, Jacob Eicholtz, Wharton Esherick, De Scott Evans, Philip Evergood, Lyonel Feininger, Robert Feke, Janet Fish, Mary Frank, Furness & Hewitt, Charles Fussell, Daniel Garber, Sanford Robinson Gifford, William Glackens, Leon Golub, Sidney Goodman, Charles Grafly, Morris Graves, Nancy Graves, Red Grooms, Chaim Gross, Robert Gwathmey, Philip Leslie Hale, Walker Hancock, William Harnett, Alexander Harrison, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, Edward Hicks, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Earl Horter, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Thomas Hovenden, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, George Inness, Alex Katz, Sergeant Kendall, John Frederick Kensett, Franz Kline, Daniel Ridgway Knight, John Lewis Krimmel, Barbara Kruger, Walt Kuhn, Gaston Lachaise, Albert Laessle, Jacob Lawrence, Ernest Lawson, Alfred Leslie, Charles Leslie, Jack Levine, Edmund Darch Lewis, George Luks, Loren MacIver, Edward Greene Malbone, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Henry McCarter, Gai Melchers, Willard Metcalf, Thomas Moran, Ree Morton, Robert Motherwell, WIlliam Sidney Mount, Elizabeth Murray, Elie Nadelman, John Neagle, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Violet Oakley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jules Olitski, Elizabeth Osborne, Bass Otis, Maxfield Parrish, William Paxton, Anna Claypoole Peale, Charles Wilson Peale, James Peale, Margaretta Peale, Raphaelle Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Sarah Miriam Peale, Charles Sprague Pearce, Philip Pearlstein, Irving Petlin, John F. Peto, Horace Pippin, Fairfield Porter, Hiram Powers, Maurice Pendergast, Herbert Pullinger, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Redfield, William Trost Richards, Margaret Foster Richardson, Faith Ringgold, Howard Roberts, Theodore Robinson, Severin Roesen, Randolph Rogers, Theodore Roszak, Peter Frederick Rothermel, Mark Rothko, William Rush, Betye Saar, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, John Sartain, Raymond Saunders, Morton Schamberg, Walter Schofield, Christian Schussele, George Segal, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Marianna Sloan, David Smith, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Xanthus Smith, Benton Spruance, Richard Stankiewicz, Frank Stella, Florine Stettheimer, William Wetmore Story, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Donald Sultan, Yves Tanguy, Henry O. Tanner, Edmund Tarbell, Pavel Tchelitchew, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dwight Tryon, John Twachtman, John Vaderlyn, Elihu Vedder, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Robert Vonnoh, John Quincy Adams Ward, Everett Warner, J. Alden Weir, Neil Welliver, Benjamin West, James McNeill Whistler, George Bacon Wood, Grant Wood, Joseph Wood, Joseph Wright, Andrew Wyeth, Mahonri Young

"The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, America's oldest museum and school of fine arts, was founded in 1805. Today, the Academy boasts one of the nation's finest collections of American art and a roster of alumni representing the greatest artists this country has produced. ... [details]

Seis Años : La Desmaterialización del Objeto Artístico de 1966 a 1972 [ Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ]

Lucy Lippard, Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

Spanish language edition of an essential source book, "Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972," compiling the documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. ... [details]

Fred Wilson : Objects and Installations 1979 - 2000

Fred Wilson, Maurice Berger

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 26, 2001 - January 12, 2002. Traveled to Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 26, 2002 - January 7, 2003 ; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, January 22, 2003 - March 3, 2003 ; blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum, University of Houston, May 3 - August 3, 2003 ; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, September 3 - November 8, 2003 ; Santa Monica Museum, December 5, 2003 - February 8, 2004 ; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 28 - July 4, 2004 ; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, July - September 2004. ... [details]

New Observations : Of Hermes and History

No. 122 (Summer 1999)

Todd Ayoung, Herman Asselberghs, Jim Costanzo, Henry Du Moulin, Rainer Ganahl, Johan Grimonprez, Interim Sites, May Joseph, Carsten Juhl, Janet Koenig, Jun Ozaki, David Reinfurt, Dean Sakamoto, Gregory G. Sholette, Allison Smith, Fatimah Tuggar, Sergio Vega, Brian Wallis, Fred Wilson

Issue number 122 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Todd Ayoung. Essays "Hows Angels Travel," by Todd Ayoung; "Iyali (Family)," by Fatimah Tuggar; "Frugality and the Urban," by May Joseph; "On Archives (A Fragment) by Brian Wallis; "Isis," by Fred Wilson; "Untitled (Hathor and Attendants)," by Fred Wilson; "Museum City," by Janet Koenig; "2nd Official Game," by Jun Ozaki; "Interface Passages," by Rainer Ganahl; "Place de La Chapelle," by Henry Du Moulin; "Transaction Profile," by Jim Costanzo; "Painting, Demography, and Global Communication," by Carsten Juhl; "Since '72," by Allison Smith; "Untitled (Excerpt from Paraiso en el Nuevo Mundo)," by Sergio Vega; "Toto, I Have a Feeling We're Not in Texas Anymore. ... [details]

The Museum as Muse

Kynaston McShine, Lilian Tone, Birgit Pelzer, Brian Wallis, Susan Stewart, Magdalena Dabrowski, Ecke Bonk, Jodi Hauptman, Kristen Erickson, Coosje van Bruggen, James Trainor, Thomas McEvilley, Sally Yard, Thomas Kellein, James Roberts, Kitty Scott, Kate Linker, Dave Hickey, Vito Acconci, Eve Arnold, Art & Language, Michael Asher, Lothar Baumgarten, Barbara Bloom, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Jan Dibbets, Lutz Dille, Mark Dion, Herbert Distel, Marcel Duchamp, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Elliot Erwitt, Roger Fenton, Robert Filliou, Larry Fink, Fluxus, Gunther Forg, Andrea Fraser, General Idea, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Candida Höfer, Komar and Melamid, Louise Lawler, J.B. Gustave Le Gray, Jac Leirner, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, El Lissitzky, Allan McCollum, Christian Milovanoff, Vik Muniz, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Wilson Peale, Hubert Robert, Edward Ruscha, David Seymour, Robert Smithson, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Charles Thurston, Thompson, Jeff Wall, Christopher Williams, Fred Wilson, Garry Winogrand

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 14-June 1, 1999. Exhibition curated by, edited by, and essay by Kynaston McShine. Texts by artists and Lilian Tone, Birgit Pelzer, Brian Wallis, Susan Stewart, Magdalena Dabrowski, Ecke Bonk, Jodi Hauptman, Kristen Erickson, Coosje van Bruggen, James Trainor, Thomas McEvilley, Sally Yard, Thomas Kellein, James Roberts, Kitty Scott, Kate Linker, Dave Hickey. ... [details]

Artforum

Vol. 36 No. 5 (January 1998)

Jack Bankowsky, Frederic Tuten, James Surowiecki, Mark Van de Walle, David Frankel, Glenn O'Brien, Greil Marcus, William Harris, Lawrence Levi, Richard Shone, Daniel Birnbaum, Elizabeth Janus, Robert Leonard, Robin Cembalest, Wayne Koestenbaum, Carol Squiers, John Elderfield, Diedrich Diederichsen, Mayo Thompson, Margaret Sundell, Sigmar Polke, Lisa Liebmann, Bruce Hainley, Arthur C. Danto, Matthew Collings, Yve-Alain Bois, Jan Avgikos, Tom Breidenbach, Nico Israel, Barry Schwabsky, Marek Bartelik, Donald Kuspit, Frances Richard, Alexander Alberro, Tom Moody, RoseLee Goldberg, Francine Koslow-Miller, James Yood, MaLin Wilson, John K. Grande, José Luis Brea, Massimo Carboni, Marco Meneguzzo, George Baker, Jérôme Sans, Christian Kravagna, Carlos Basualdo, Yilmaz Dziewior, James Hall, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Passages: Frederic Tuten on Roy Lichtenstein," by Frederic Tuten; "Books: James Surowiecki on The Baffler," by James Surowiecki; "Hot List: Mark Van de Walle on the News," by Mark Van de Walle; "Music: David Frankel on Harry Smith," by David Frankel; "Music: Glenn O'Brien on Bob Dylan," by Glenn O'Brien; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Regional Exhibitions: Forty Winter/Spring Shows Around the Globe"; "New in New York: William Harris on the New New Museum," by William Harris; "New in New York: Lawrence Levi on Traveling Exhibitions," by Lawrence Levi; "New in New York: Richard Shone on Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower Project," by Richard Shone; "International Shorts: Daniel Birnbaum on Steven Holl's Museum for Helsinki," by Daniel Birnbaum; "International Shorts: Elizabeth Janus on New Directors for Bern and Lucerne," by Elizabeth Janus; "International Shorts: Robert Leonard on Te Papa," by Robert Leonard; "Northern Highlights: Robin Cembalest on the Moderna Museet," by Robin Cembalest; "Northern Highlights: Daniel Birnbaum on Stockholm 1998," by Daniel Birnbaum; "Raid the Pillbox: Making Up Andy," by Wayne Koestenbaum; "A Slice of Light: Carol Squiers on James Welling," by Carol Squiers; "Jasper JohnsL 'Diver,' 1963," by John Elderfield; "Company Man: Diedrich Diedrichsen talks with Mayo Thompson"; "Openings: Liisa Roberts," by Margaret Sundell. ... [details]