Which aspects of the artist space movement can contribute to a reinvention of alternative spaces rather than a nostalgic replication of these vital institutions? …see the full review in October’s magazine.
Archive
Robert Irwin: De-objectifications for Philosophic and Actual Bodies
Part I: Prologue: X 183, 1998. View of mixed-media installation Robert Irwin’s new work, “Prologue: X 183”, is the first of a two-part installation on the third floor of the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City.
The Height and Depth of Gloria Kisch
Two Columns, 1998. Aluminum, left column 82 x 10 x 10 in.; right column 81 x 12 x 12 in. Gloria Kischís cavernous studio occupies the basement of an office building near Saint Marks Place in lower Manhattan.
Burke Paterson
New York
Kiki Smith
Washington D.C.
Jonathan Shahn
New York
Claudia Fitch: Just Beautiful
Claudia Fitch wants her work to “be as beautiful as Lucille Ball.” This desire both reveals and conceals the complex character of her artistic strategy; this beauty is the beauty of Formica finishes, Maybelline-lacquered fingernails, and the loveliness of the home-perm.
Museums at the Millennium
Corporate sponsorship of museum exhibitions is creating a romanticized, sanitized, and aestheticized urban landscape …see the full review in September’s magazine.
