Elaine O'Brien

Art 112 :: Contemporary Art

Readings

• Times Square Show (1980), 2012 review
  
• Arthur Danto, "Andy Warhol: The Window at Bonwit's"

• Amor, Enwezor et al, "Liminalities: Discussions on the Global and the Local"
  
  
• Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood (excerpt)
  
• Ubu Anthology of Conceptual Writing
  
  
• Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art
  
  
•  Martha Rosler, Statement
  

• Jiro Yoshihara, The Gutai Manifesto (RTF)
   
• "Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life," Randy Kennedy, NYTimes, September, 2011

• Sanja Ivekovic, "Venus Rising from Her Pretty Prison," Roberta Smith, NYTimes, 12/15/11
• "Chicano Pioneers," by Randy Kennedy, NYTimes, August 2011

• Xu Bing - "An Artist Who Bridges East & West" - NYTimes May 2011

• David Wojnarowicz: Against His Vanishing an interview with Steven Dubin

• "It's Not Dry Yet" (Painters of the last decade)

• Mark Rothko play on Broadway

• "Marisol: A Sculptor of Modern Life," catalog essay by Eleanor Heartney

• Mark Bradford's 10-year survey at ICA Boston, December 2010, "Tracking Racial Identity But Not Defined by It," Holland Cotter
  
  
• David Wojnarowicz video censored at National Gallery show, Holland Cotter commentary, December 10, 2010
  
  
• Ai Weiwei, "I Have to Speak for People Who Are Afraid" The Guardian, March 2010
  
  
• Roberta Smith, "Make Room for Video, Performance, and Paint," 12/31/09
  
  
• Holland Cotter on the 1974 Lynda Benglis' Artforum ad controversy
  
  
• Joseph Beuys on Fluxus
  
  
• Holland Cotter, The Boom is Over, Long Live the Art
  
  
• Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism (RTF)
  
  
• Holland Cotter, The Collective Conscious
  

• Wu Hung, On Contemporary Forms in Chinese Art and the Diachronic Approach of the 6th Gwanggju Biennale 2006
  
  
• Cai Guo-Qiang: The Pyrotechnic Imagination
  

• Tara Donovan: The Genius of Little Things
  
  
• Ken Johnson, NYTimes, 12/2008: The Art Fair as Outlet Mall ac

Videos:

Gerhard Richter

Agnes Martin

Dennis Oppenheim

Power Up: Female Pop Art exhibition, Kunsthalle, Vienna

Krzysztof Wodiczko, War Veteran Vehicle

Watch full Art 21 feature film online: William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

">Beryl Korot: "Radical Software" 1970-74

Kiki Smith: Works in Glass (2010)

Bruce Nauman exhibition, Venice Biennale 2009

Pull My Daisy: 1959 film by Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, with Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, inprovised narration by Jack Kerouac

Gordon Matta-Clark exhibit walk-through with his widow, Jane from Howard Silver on Vimeo.">Gordon Matta Clark (from 2007 Whitney retrospective)

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  Zaha Hadid Interview -Chanel Pavilion from Howard Silver on Vimeo.">Zaha Hadid Interview
  
• John Elderfield on Willem de Kooning - MoMA NYC retrospective, 2011-2012

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