Word: sensationism
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A number of weeks ago, someone on the production staff of Picasso at the Lapin Agile made an interesting decision. Rather than using the standard Loeb Ex audience chairs, the production staff hauled up whatever seating material they could find in the HRDCs large props room-reclining chairs, sofas, pillow...
A gathering crowd is no indication of artistic achievement. The critical consensus at the 2000 Biennial, though, has closely mirrored popular opinion. This was the year of the video: Douglas Aitken's installation "Electric Earth," which chronicles the nocturnal wanderings of a young black man through the streets of Los...
Never mind that Sensation had been shown two years ago in England to no controversy and that this kind of discourse on the First Amendment should have been resolved before the turn of the last century. The main source of the fuss is that "Sanitation" displays the quotations from Giuliani...
We should keep in mind that "Sanitation" was probably a rushed creation, most likely developed after the Sensation spectacle of last December. But this does not excuse "Sanitation" as a work of art. Unlike Haacke's earlier works, there is no consideration for ecology; every object in "Sanitation" seems unjustifiably...
Roman Signer, a Swiss artist who utilizes simple physical properties to uncover beauty in the natural world, reminds me of my 7th grade science teacher. But when one sees his "experiments," ten of which are exhibited here on video, which he uses to document these process-based pieces, the allure...