Memory Banks
What these works express is less a coherent critical position than a shared sense of dispossession. In this way, "Brand New" feels like less a historical survey than a field report of the current…
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Chris Burden’s Magnificent Flying Machine: The History Behind the Late Artist’s Last Work, Hovering Over Unlimited at Art Basel
A gigantic installation makes its high-profile debut.
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The Cyborg Anthropologist: Ian Cheng on His Sentient Artworks
Last February, shortly after the opening of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s show of recent computer-generated art, called “Suspended Animation,” Ian Cheng received an urgent…
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Bodies in the Expanded Field: Animation at the Hirshhorn
“I am the mouth that produces waves,” intones a disembodied pair of lips, half-submerged in a rippling lagoon. “My words are the vibrations that produce waves of pressure and displacement.” When visit…
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Hirshhorn Museum Hires Stéphane Aquin as Chief Curator
Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced today that it has tapped Stéphane Aquin, the curator of contemporary art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, to be its new…
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Swiss Institute Announces Simon Castets as New Director and Curator
New York nonprofit the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art (SI) has appointed Simon Castets as its new director and curator. He succeeds Gianni Jetzer, director of SI for seven years, and will take u…
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Under Destruction
Playing on the pervasiveness of images of destruction and devastation in the news and in Hollywood movies, artists are making works that range from violent to chillingly disquieting
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New Walls for the Swiss Institute
Gianni Jetzer has been the Director of the Swiss Institute in New York since 2006, and before that he was previously Director of the Neue Kunst Halle St.Gallen. In his tenure at the Swiss Institute he…
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Gianni Jetzer
Gianni Jetzer has been the Director of the Swiss Institute in New York since 2006, and before that he was previously Director of the Neue Kunst Halle St.Gallen. In his tenure at the Swiss Institute he…
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