Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer and independent curator based in the NYC metro area. His work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Whitney Museum, NY, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, MA. He is currently a contributing writer to the Brooklyn Rail and curatorial director at www.beautifulfields.org.
What happens when interlocking systems of institutional assumptions about aesthetic valence are deployed as an over-mined field of critical data? How does a shopping list of representative art historical tropes…
The last Biennial to be held at Marcel Breuer’s grey granite bunker on Madison Avenue, before the Whitney moves to a new building on the Highline, boasts a collaborative team…
Chris Burden’s public persona has maintained a quirky and exceptional position within the art world since his 1971 performance of Shoot when he set up a situation in which he…
The curators of NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star at the New Museum would have been in their early teens to early twenties in 1993. This may…