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 morph into a dynamic rhetorical narrative to unpack those very…
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Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness” at MoMA
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The 2014 Whitney Biennial
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 of curators. Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and…
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“Chris Burden: Extreme Measures” at New Museum
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 was shot in the arm at medium range with a…
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“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” at the New Museum
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 not be such an insignificant fact given the time capsule…