By John Ruggeri Entering the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center world is not your typical high-end museum experience. Formerly a public school and now an affiliate of Museum of Modern Art, it is located in a modest urban neighborhood of Long Island…
By JOHN RUGGIERI In the museum retrospective of Rudolf Stingel, the quiet drama in his work is heightened by scale and context. The art world has been wrestling with the idea that “Painting is dead” for quite some time. Some…
By JOHN RUGGIERI I remember the big stink, the uproar, that spilled into the daily newspaper when Serra’s Tilted Arc was deemed unfit, too big, just not practical enough, for human consumption in its commissioned site at the Federal Plaza…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Robin Rhode’s video performance The Storyteller, involves a lone performer whose storyline is enlivened in expressively drawn wall and ground illustrations using time-exposed action and simple props. It is the seemingly bare production values and materials that…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article “Where’s the Marketing Department?” “Is your office over there, Tim?” I naughtily quipped. The grey grid pattern of endless squares on every single surface of the museum spoke more to the corporate world than…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article I’d been to South Beach only once before for a brief winter respite in the early 90s, when the main strip, Ocean Drive, was awash in models and open-air cafes. The Art Deco architecture…