The landscape has tended to be a somewhat innocuous subject for the last few centuries. Now a more charged genre, it is still presented in mostly polite ways at the Biennale.
Laure Prouvost’s latest outing in New York was up front about its own capriciousness. Upon entering the gallery, you encountered a printed sign reading: “Keep left (to the right).” If you did go to th…
Emblazoned in capital letters on a glass wall in the lobby gallery of New York's New Museum is a phrase that can be hard to forget: "Ideally This Sign Would Remember You." This isn't a question or…