Tag Archive "hannah-wilke"

Monographs on Birgit Jürgenssen, Nancy Spero and Hannah Wilke

It’s welcome to see increasing numbers of serious books on women artists, even if all three discussed here are posthumous. The volumes on Spero and Wilke pay sustained attention to two Americans who are well-known and widely reproduced; the book on the Austrian, Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), is an introduction to a fascinating artist whose work is all but unknown in the U.S. Gabriele Schor and Abigail Solomon-Godeau Birgit Jürgenssen (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz and Vienna: Sammlung Verbund, 2009) ISBN 978-3-7757–2461-6 (English edition) Birgit Jürgenssen’s education, teaching career and exhibitions took place primarily in the very small and in-bred art community of ... More » »

The Conceptual Eroticism of Marcel Duchamp: Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés at the PMA

Exhibitions devoted to a single work of 20th century art are extremely rare, and Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), on view  through November 29, 2009 is exemplary.

Some video passes the test of time

Plus ca change … Post by Andrea Kirsh Mary Lucier I was in Madrid last week for the opening of “First Generation; Art and the Moving Image (1963-1986), a large and very important exhibition which grew out of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia’s belated decision to begin to collect video art in 2005. The curator, Berta Sichel, decided to back up and look at the initial moment when video entered the art world. She produced the most international and comprehensive survey of early video art ever. Amazingly, the Reina Sofia had been able to acquire 85% of ... More » »