Articles of ‘Vito Acconci’

The Hive/El panal

The Hive/El panal

Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan
Several venues - San Juan Puerto Rico
By Paco Barragán
The Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan de Puerto Rico (The San Juan Polygraphic Triennial) kicked off on April 27 under the umbrella title El Panal/The Hive, with the participation of 150 national and international artists. The budget is $1 million, which [...]



Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci: On Life, Culture, and other Matters

By Alvaro Rodríguez Fominaya
In 2008 Para/Site Art Space invited Ai Weiwei to work on a project in Hong Kong. To my surprise, he accepted. Indeed, we didn’t have much to offer to him, if we compare the micro space of Para/Site Art Space to the Tate Modern or the Mori Art Museum, to mention just [...]



Street Art, Street Life

Bronx Museum of Art - New York
September 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Since Baudelaire’s poetry -in poems such as A une passante- the streets of modern cities have been a recurrent subject in both literature and visual arts. With the arrival of avant-garde movements, the streets became a privileged space for trying experiments [...]