“In 1965, at the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín devised the now-legendary environment La Menesunda. This intricate labyrinth sought to provoke visitors and spur them into action, offering new modes of encounter with consumer culture, mass media, and urban… Read More
All posts tagged “Helga Christoffersen”
Nari Ward: We the People at New Museum, February 13 – May 26, 2019
“The first museum survey in New York of the work of Nari Ward (b. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica), the exhibition brings together works spanning Ward’s twenty-five-year career, installed across the three main floors of the Museum. Nari Ward: We the People is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari,… Read More
Thomas Bayrle: Playtime at New Museum, June 20 – September 2, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The New Museum presents a major retrospective exhibition of the works of Thomas Bayrle (b. 1937, Berlin, Germany). This solo exhibition—Bayrle’s first major New York museum survey—brings together works from the last fifty years, highlighting Bayrle’s experiments across media and their… Read More
Petrit Halilaj: RU at New Museum, September 27, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kostërrc, Skenderaj-Kosovo) often uses his own biography as a point of departure, adopting exhibition processes to alter the course of private and collective histories. Encompassing sculpture, drawing, text, and video, many of Halilaj’s works incorporate materials from… Read More
Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at New Museum, October 26, 2016 – January 15, 2017
“The New Museum presents the first New York survey of the work of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b.1962). Over the past thirty years, Rist has achieved international renown as a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations. Her mesmerizing works envelop viewers in sensual, vibrantly… Read More
The Keeper at New Museum, through September 25, 2016
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The Keeper is an exhibition dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks, and images. A reflection on the impulse to save both the most precious and the apparently valueless, this presentation brings together a variety of imaginary museums, personal collections,… Read More
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