In 1969, the artist Bruce Nauman made Pacing Upside Down, a 56-minute single-frame film of the artist crazily astride his California studio: a portrait of the artist as a convict in his cage. It was an extreme act of art that became foundational—inaugurating a shift in style from American abstract painting and Pop to post-Minimalism, Read More
That chaotic, sprawling monster of an art exhibition, the Venice Biennale, opens this week. This year there will be over 77 nations participating in this 104-year-old institution, originally founded in 1895 to display decorative arts.
Seeing the Biennale properly requires the military tactics of a Caesar: exhibitions, performances and installations cover over 90,000 square Read More
At Harry Cipriani on a recent afternoon I thought, of all things, of the artist Bruce Nauman. I had gone to the opening of the new Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams over the weekend and one of the exhibits had been a plywood room by Mr. Nauman which upsets your balance and Read More
