Interview
Of the four artists known by history as the NEA Four, Karen Finley is the one whose full name many people remember, even if they know little else about the situation that led to the artists’ lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Interview
Holly Hughes was the first of the NEA Four artists to complete her week-long residency at the New Museum this month, and the first of the artists I had a chance to interview as part of this series looking at those four today. She had an eventful week, with events taking place not only at the museum
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The NEA Four, now in residence at the New Museum, were denied National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants in 1990, after Congress passed a "decency clause." How has arts funding changed in the past 20 years? Its current state would certainly "disabuse just about anyone of the idea that pursuing an
Film
Between the Gothic walls of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, with a choir intoning an ethereal soundtrack from all sides, Marco Brambilla's "Creation (Megaplex)" revealed its vision of humanity from Big Bang to apocalypse in a swirling 3D film.
Opinion
The artist list has just been released for New Museum associate director and curator Massimiliano Gioni's 2013 Venice Biennale, and it features a slew of established names, including Tacita Dean, Carl Andre, and Bruce Nauman. More provocatively, the show will also feature some appropriated objects:
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By Monday, the reality of the mandated reductions in government spending, otherwise known as sequestration, had begun to sink in. For its part, the New York Times announced, to no one’s surprise, “the split between American workers and the companies that employ them is widening and could worsen in t
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Opening tonight, the New Museum's NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star purports to offer a time capsule, or, as the museum's curator Gary Carrion-Murayari put it, a "form of collective memory" documenting a particular time in a particular art scene, namely, New York City in the '90s.
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Archival work as an art form? Visit any prolific artist's studio and you'll see the intense need for archiving their work for a future age. This is particularly true, I think, for artists practicing outside the world's major art centers, where extensive media and established institutio
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With a brand new year comes a slew of new museum exhibitions to look forward to. From retrospectives of major artists like Claes Oldenburg and James Turrell to an exploration of New York City art during one year in the 1990s, here's a look at what to expect from NYC's art museums in 2013.
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Tomorrow, Patti Smith will turn 66. The day before yesterday, on the 27th, her longtime guitarist Lenny Kaye reached the same age. “We’re three days apart,” Smith announced last week in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art at her “walk-in” concert celebrating the birthday of the French writer Jean
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Sitting in the New Museum theater last Thursday night with an audience full of old-school punk and avant-garde musicians and artists such as Alan W. Moore, Coleen Fitzgibbon and Becky Howland, who were all a part of Collaborative Projects, the artist collective that founded ABC No Rio and organized
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Is this Judith Bernstein’s moment? With her work now on display in two New York museums, the art world is finally catching up with this uncompromising artist. And it’s taken only four and a half decades.