Articles of ‘American Night’

A Western Hanging in the Museum

Reflections on Julian Rosefeldt’s American Night

By F. Javier Panera Cuevas

“The only technologies worth having are a six gun and a movie camera.”
Sam Peckinpah
Over the past decade we have witnessed the progressive incorporation of cinema into museum halls.1 Although this phenomenon is not entirely new, the reason it has become commonplace can be found [...]