In honor of MoMA PS1’s show “Vito Acconci: Where Are We Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976,” which looks at the first few years of the performance and video artist’s career, we turn back to 1972…
Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss began collaborating in 1979 (Weiss died in 2012), imbuing varied works—almost all concerned with the banality of the artists' everyday lives—with their trademar…
Hilla Becher, who, with her husband, Bernd, revolutionized the field of photography with their austere images of industrial structures, and who went on to teach important German photographers
Sonnabend director Jason Ysenburg is moving to Gagosian. “I feel both excited and a bit scared,” he told Carol Vogel. Sonnabend will close by the end of the year. [NYT] The big art of…
For some artists, a work is done when it leaves the studio. Others keep tinkering in the galleries. One waits for the piece to "cry uncle"
A wave of exhibitions shows how the open-ended, experimental, hardscrabble, less cynical esthetic of the '70s is appealing to artists and curators