Art
Finding Common Ground at City Hall
City Hall Park's newest exhibit has artists realizing public monuments as acts of memorial and common experience, as well as shared moments of public art whimsy.
Roger Hiorns
Opinion
Is the Zeitgeist Underground?
We were rather surprised that our Feb 13 post on Christoph Büchel’s "Terminal" project, titled "Artist to Bury an Airplane Underground and Call It Art," was as popular as it was. But what really floored us was that the idea is not original at all and there are two other projects essentially doing th
Art
Making Sense of Trauma Through Art
To commemorate the 10th anniversary, MoMA PS1 organized a group exhibition, titled September 11, now on view to January 9, 2012. Curator Peter Eleey has brought together more than 70 works by 41 artists — many made prior to 9/11 — to investigate the attacks’ enduring resonance. Avoiding sensational
Art
Industrial Anxiety: Amanda Hughen, Roger Hiorns
Amanda Hughen and Roger Hiorns are two artists who look to the relationship between industrial and anxiety production as source material for their artistic practice. Hughen and Hiorns also serve as a study in contrasts, approaching the problem from different coasts, with different concepts, and in d