Amy O'Neill: Spencer Brownstone. (New York).(Brief Article)

Installation art is in a precarious state. It has been criticized in recent years for cultivating a kind of blase site-specificity that caters to the demands of large-scale exhibition organizers needing to fill space and provide a temporary spectacle--for being what Peter Schjeldahl calls "festival art." At the same time, it's been around long enough to be open to parody at the hands of a younger generation.

Specifically ripe for analysis is the strain of installation that deals with historical reenactment in the manner of Ilya Kabakov. Amy O'Neill's latest project seems ...

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