Exhibition catalogue / checklist published in conjunction with benefit show and sale held November 1 - 16, 1985. Artists include John Ahearn, Ida Applebroog, Alice Aycock, Joseph Beuys, Mike Bidlo, Billy Copley, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jane Dickson, Stefan Eins, Mimi Gross, Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Howland, Komar & Melamid, Joseph Kosuth, Lady Pink, Roy Lichtenstein, Allan McCollum, Paul McMahon, Marilyn Minter, Joseph Nechvatal, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Larry Rivers, Walter Robinson, Tim Rollins & K. ... [details]
"Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
Issue number 122 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Todd Ayoung. Essays "Hows Angels Travel," by Todd Ayoung; "Iyali (Family)," by Fatimah Tuggar; "Frugality and the Urban," by May Joseph; "On Archives (A Fragment) by Brian Wallis; "Isis," by Fred Wilson; "Untitled (Hathor and Attendants)," by Fred Wilson; "Museum City," by Janet Koenig; "2nd Official Game," by Jun Ozaki; "Interface Passages," by Rainer Ganahl; "Place de La Chapelle," by Henry Du Moulin; "Transaction Profile," by Jim Costanzo; "Painting, Demography, and Global Communication," by Carsten Juhl; "Since '72," by Allison Smith; "Untitled (Excerpt from Paraiso en el Nuevo Mundo)," by Sergio Vega; "Toto, I Have a Feeling We're Not in Texas Anymore. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 12 - December 8, 2007. Essay by Joseph del Pesco. Artists include BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Germaine Koh, Valerie Hegarty, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan and Anne Walsh. ... [details]
"The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, America's oldest museum and school of fine arts, was founded in 1805. Today, the Academy boasts one of the nation's finest collections of American art and a roster of alumni representing the greatest artists this country has produced. ... [details]