Art
Playing Back 50 Years of Video Art
EAST LANSING, Mich. — As digital and web-based forms of dissemination have competed with video art, what is left to distinguish it as a standalone genre?
Martha Rosler
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At a University Museum, an Exhibition Examines Student Debt
EAST LANSING, Mich. — On the sprawling grounds of Michigan State University, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is a sleek, modernistic storehouse amidst the dull brick buildings that populate the campus.
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Martha Rosler Tackles the Problem of Representation
LONDON — In the ’70s, photographer (and videographer, and rigorous cultural critic, and possible genius) Martha Rosler brought a critical eye, politically and philosophically, to the medium’s seductive pretenses of objectivity.
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Images from the First Week of the Brooklyn Int'l Performance Art Festival
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) has begun and I will be blogging weekly photo essays of all the performances — a small fraction of the complete schedule — I attend each week.
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A Tag Sale at the Temple of Modernism
There's a garage sale at the Museum of Modern Art, and no, it's not a high-end, designer consignment sale. Martha Rosler's Meta-Monumental Garage Sale is about as real as they come, from the racks of battered shoes to the "great dad" statuettes, and from the worn lingerie to the splattered cookbooks
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Filmmaker Miranda July Finds Value (and Prices) in Everyday Objects
LOS ANGELES — It has always been a mystery to me how a signature Louis Vuitton bag can go for thousands of dollars while an impeccable knockoff (essentially the exact same bag) can go for mere hundreds. In the same way, a piece of art that can hardly be sold at the time of its creation can skyrocket
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26th Street Courts the Masses with a Block Party
In unofficial conjunction with the inauguration of Frieze New York on Randall’s Island, the galleries on Chelsea's 26th Street decided to go big and throw a block party last Saturday. If there is one kind of party that galleries excel at, it’s glamorous and exclusive after-hours functions, on a roof
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unfinished masterpiece, artists on Facebook, Guggenheim's free online catalogues, Okwui Enwezor lectures on art and civic imagination, Russian space, nasty ancient graffiti and much more …
Opinion
Tuesday Video: Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen
Youtube is a surprisingly excellent place to see art, and not just the latest glitchy gif set your neighbor came up with. The site is full of historical performance videos, all just a click away. One of the greats is Martha Rosler's performance “Semiotics of the Kitchen” (1975), in which the artist