Jack Smith
Jack Smith is known almost entirely for his playfully risqué film Flaming Creatures (1963); as noted in the pamphlet accompanying Artists Space's exhibition "Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis," the…
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Em Rooney
Critics routinely describe Em Rooney's work as "vernacular." Vernacular it is, but sometimes to a fault.
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Cyprien Gaillard
Cyprien Gaillard makes spectacular films, sculptures, and installations that dramatize the unsavory, distinctly unglamorous side of societal progress while also making it beautiful.
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Film: Pornography of Power
In her last film project, the late artist Ellen Cantor mixed documentary and soap opera genres to expose the perversity of US support for the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Elocution Lessons: Q+A With Brendan Fernandes
In his 4½-minute film Foe (2008), artist Brendan Fernandes addresses the camera nonchalantly as he reads and rereads a selected text from J.M. Coetzee's novel of the same name. Included in the…
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Q+A: Piotr Uklanski’s Crafted Conceits
Having installed a multicolored luminescent dance floor, Untitled (Dance Floor) (2000), on MoMA's outdoor terrace in 2000, the Polish-born artist Piotr Uklanski took to a supplementary leaflet to…
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The Painter of Sleep: Johannes Wohnseifer
For his 1999 solo exhibition at the Museum Ludwig Köln—situated, appropriately, inside the pop collection—Johannes Wohnseifer put 16 monochromatic panels on the floor, each with a pedestals and an Ad…
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Allora & Calzadilla’s Embodied Instrument
Beginning this past Wednesday, five pianists take turns playing the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony upside down in MoMA's vast atrium. For the museum's hourly re-staging of Jennifer Allo…
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Progress Performed
One of two works in Tino Sehgal's recent exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York featured one male and one female actor, straddling one another on the museum's rotunda. As they changed positions, his…
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As Long As It Lasts, From 9 Screens
Intrigued by Nicolas Guagnini's involvement with defunct Orchard Gallery's conceptual, non-commercial group exhibitions, performances, and lectures, in Spring 2008 the Museum of Modern Art's Kathy Hal…
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