Marina Abramović as Joseph Beuys (Guggenheim Museum, 2005) MoMA Redeemed? Marina Abramović (MoMA, to May 31) did not set up the parameters of Performance Art. Though there are only a few years between the seminal (sic) works of Vito Acconci and those of Abramović and her … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Not Just the Whitney Biennial
Theaster Gates: Cosmology of Yard, 2010 Beyond the Moat No fancy title. Only 55 artists, all American. A few midcareer artists. More than half of them female. You win some, you lose some. Reading the reviews, you would think "2010," the Whitney Biennial, was a revolution of some kind. Please. Except for the long-demanded (but apparently unplanned) increase in the number of women, it is back to square one, save a single exception. With more and more … [Read more...]