In 1995, just as desktop computers were entering middle-class households in much of the world, an artist in Kyoto was putting the finishing touches on a high-tech media installation grieving the
Shigeko Kubota, a pioneer of video art and a well-connected Fluxus artist known for using her body to ponder time and space, died from cancer in Manhattan on Thursday at age 77.
Today, Kubota
The Museum of Modern Art's first full-scale exhibition of sound art will also be its curator's swan song. After 42 years at New York's MoMA, Barbara London is retiring from her position of associate…
Sound art has had only a limited presence in major American museums, London told A.i.A. in a phone interview, though the 2002 Whitney Biennial did include a section devoted to the medium—"if you…