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Activist esthetics
Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, by Allan Antliff, Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007; 224 pages, $23.95...
Art in America, 06/01/08 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
Invisible cities: Tom McDonough on Henri Lefebvre's The Explosion
ONE THING THAT COMMENTATORS across the ideological spectrum could agree on--one thing that they would repeat like a mantra on editorial pages and...
ArtForum, 05/01/08 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
The anarchive: an assembly of mostly photographic and filmic works, "Archive Fever" provides an occasion to consider the institutional uses of visual information
The first works one meets at the entry of "Archive Fever," Okwui Enwezor's ambitious survey of the various uses to which the photographic document...
Art in America, 05/01/08 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
Harun Farocki at Greene Naftali
German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki has long been interested in examining the relationship between technology and visuality, and in analyzing...
Art in America, 05/01/08 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
Chris Marker: gazes and relationships: the legendary but elusive filmmaker went into his archives for "Staring Back," an exhibition that combined photos and text, the personal and the political
He was born in 1921 at the outer reaches of the world, in what was then called Niislel Khuree by its inhabitants, but known in the West as Urga,...
Art in America, 12/01/07 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
How to do things with buildings: the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, lately the subject of renewed attention, is generously surveyed in a traveling exhibition. A striking feature shared by his building cuts and photographs as well as his films is their perfor
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are two things to be said about demolition work. The first is how difficult it is to work...
Art in America, 11/01/07 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
Moses in Gotham: a three-part exhibition last spring reevaluated the contributions of Robert Moses, a visionary long vilified for running roughshod over New York City neighborhoods
For more than a generation, few urban planners were more excoriated than Robert Moses (1888-1981), who, as longtime commissioner of the Department...
Art in America, 09/01/07 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
Education of the senses: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's splendid new home for the Boston ICA explores the relationship between culture and sight
It was a long and mostly quiet drive from my upstate New York home into Boston one recent December afternoon. Listening to Bach, the cruise control...
Art in America, 03/01/07 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
Mental constructs
Modern Architecture and Other Essays, by Vincent Scully, selected and with an introduction by Neil Levine, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University...
Art in America, 11/01/06 by Tom McDonough · More from publication -
City of Cineastes: "Cinema," a recent exhibition in Grenoble, brought together three generations of artists who have explored video- and film-based imagery
Over the past several years we have been bombarded by what has come to be called "projected image" work--by the all-pervasive presence of the video...
Art in America, 09/01/06 by Tom McDonough · More from publication
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