How long does it take to come up with a new idea? The New Museum thinks 24 hours should just about do it. Rhizome, the New Museum's online affiliate for technology-based artistic practices, launched S…
As Claire Bishop indicated in her introduction to the "The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models" conference from March 10–13, ours is a moment dominated by what curator…
25 years ago, on September 8, 1985, celebrated feminist body artist Ana Mendieta fell 34 floors to her death from the window of her Greenwich Village apartment. The only other person with her at the t…
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's ten-month solo exhibition, "chronotopes & dioramas," commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation and on view at Manhattan's Hispanic Society, concluded Sunday. Located in a me…
Nicknamed "the Fluxus cabdriver" by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over four decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus a…
Nicknamed "the Fluxus cabdriver" by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over four decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus a…
In a lecture at the 2005 Frieze Art Fair, art historian Thomas Crow presented an insightful inquiry into the critical implications inherent in the relationship between works of art and the architectur…
A group of naked men and women play a game of tag in a former Nazi gas chamber; a choir of deaf-mute youths "sing" a Bach cantata in a church; a unit of nude Polish army guards practices a military…
"Ingar [Dragset] and I like simple ideas," explained Michael Elmgreen of the artist duo, Elmgreen & Dragset at the Danish and Nordic Pavilions' opening ceremony at this year's Venice Biennale. "When w…