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...Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles right now and you can see one of the most merciless cultural products of the 1960s, Carl Andre's 6 x 6 Den Haag Steel Lock, a mat of 36 steel plates arranged to form a black square. First assembled in 1968, it remains to this day one of the bluntest things that have ever presumed to radiate the aura of an art object--which may be what was bothering a recent visitor to the show "A Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958-1968." The art lover, a guy who looked...
Kelly also sculpts in various media and makes collages. In 1999, an exhibition of his drawings was shown at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. His work also has been exhibited at MOMA, the Whitney and the Guggenheim in New York, MOCA in Los Angeles and the Tate Gallery in London...
Even as video games become more filmic, their influence is bleeding into other arts. Game Show, a recent exhibition at Mass Moca, included imagery appropriated from video games, as well as works that actually engaged the paradigms of video games. One artist produced an interactive retelling of a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquz through the medium of first-generation desktop games...
Articles of furniture bring out what is exceptional about Hofer. In "MOCA Los Angeles," Hofer presents a modern conference room, where we glimpse the reflection of an overhead projector and a person's head. What is striking is the sequence of ergonomic chairs and their shadows on the left-hand side. We see chairs reappear in a lecture hall, mustering for a march against the grand piano that stands on the stage. Hofer inverts the relationship between the animate and inanimate and thus makes us that much more aware of the rooms we inhabit...
...Moca, Puerto Rico...