By Paco Barragán
For more than two centuries since the Louvre went public, the museum has hardly changed.
I am shockingly aware that such a statement may sound like a provocation, as many respected professionals from the museum world and academia alike-Kenneth Hudson and Eilean Hooper-Greenhill among them-think just the opposite: that “museums refuse [...]
By Paco Barragán
Having been asked to narrate my recent visit to New York to some of its seminal museums, my remarks on it must be taken as biased-in the nature of a reprobation-rather than as the expression of entirely independent criticism.
I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge [...]
Allora and Calzadilla: Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano
Museum of Modern Art - New York
By Marco Antonini
Ninth in a series of ongoing live and documented performances presented at the MoMA, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a prepared piano has been already labeled by many as Jennifer [...]
Museum of Modern Art - New York
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach
How to keep performances alive?
The big problem with performance is that it only makes sense live.
-Marina Abramovi?.1
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
The Yugoslavian artist Marina Abramovi?’s retrospective “The Artist is Present” at MoMA gathers almost fifty works, and includes a live performance by Abramovi? and five re-performances by a group [...]
By Maja Horn
By most accounts the coming together of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which commissioned her installation Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) for its massive second floor atrium, appears like a particularly happy marriage. Arguably, not since Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang’s spectacular installation of [...]
