Earlier this spring, as we stepped off the elevator on the top floor of the Whitney Biennial, my company at the museum made the rather amusing but to my mind also very accurate observation that it all looked like “an open studio at an MFA program”. My friend was reacting against the lack of space [...]
Posts Tagged ‘biennial’
Competing Relationships: Art, Money and the Power of Time and Space
Posted in Art or Commerce?, Exhibition, Installation, Multimedia, tagged 2008, art, artists, audience, biennial, money, museum on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last chance to see…
Posted in Exhibition, Installation, tagged biennial, containment, history, immigrants, immigration, London, memory, race, segregation, separation, Tate Museum on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…the Columbian artist Doris Salcedo’s “Shibboleth,” at the Tate Museum, London, through April 5th. It’s a 548-foot installation piece that divides the floor of the Tate’s Turbine Hall. According to the artist it, “represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred.” Can the viewer make all of these [...]
