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Albert Serra, Història de la meva mort (The Story of My Death), 2013, 35 mm, color, sound, 148 minutes. THE BABY-FACED SERRA has sometimes presented himself as a magic child, self-taught and bereft of influences, determined to maintain cinematic purity at all costs. He claims he no longer watches any other films, to avoid “contamination ...
Feb 21, 2023 · Albert Serra, Pacifiction, 2022, 4K video, color, sound, 162 minutes. De Roller (Benoit Magimel) and Shannah (Pahoa Mahagafanau). Paradise Night, the Tahitian boîte, is tawdry, brimming with sensuous surface gratifications: the kind of decadence associated with the end of an era wherein contradictions reign supreme.
1989: THE REMOVAL OF. TILTED ARC. BY THE TIME RICHARD SERRA’S Tilted Arc was lifted from Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan in March 1989, the controversy over its existence had spanned a decade. Discussions sparked by the 120-foot-long curved steel wall started even before its installation in 1981 and caused a detectable shift in attitude ...
PACIFICTION (Albert Serra) “I love action!” cries the high commissioner for French Polynesia, the protagonist of this paranoid thriller about colonialist hubris in Tahiti, but the film’s languorous rhythms and proliferating non sequiturs indicate that Serra has other ideas. Albert Serra, Pacifiction, 2022, 4K
HE WAS A GREAT EDITOR. By Richard Serra. PHIL LEIDER’S TENURE at Artforum corresponded with a period of transition and upheaval in the art world. The ’60s were the decade that marked the beginning of the end of Modernism. Even though Clement Greenberg was still making predictions and pronouncements in catalogues, his influence and relevance ...
The Serra room interested me. I wish I could have seen it from above and I became curious how they had gotten the steel plates in. There were surprising lyrical pieces by Chuck Arnoldi which seemed strange there because Chuck is a young artist and I was thinking of that place as a history museum. His was a fresh touch.
Jul 28, 2023 · July 28, 2023 6:12 pm. Hartwig Fischer, London, November 1, 2022. Photo: David M. Benett/Getty Images. Hartwig Fischer, the German art historian who since April 2016 has served as director of the British Museum, will depart the London institution in 2024. The museum will begin a search for his replacement this fall.
OTTO MüHL. By Malcolm Green. Otto Mühl (center front) with Action Analytical commune members, Friedrichshof, Austria, 1974. OTTO MÜHL WAS CALLED MANY THINGS IN HIS LIFE, but never a prophet. Yet his first manifesto, “The Blood Organ: The M-Apparatus,” written in 1962 when Mühl was in his late thirties, proved curiously farsighted, for ...
Conceived by Tambellini as a meditation on blackness, the piece was first performed as part of the late-1965 New Cinema Festival organized by Jonas Mekas and John Brockman, an epochal event that was the forerunner of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Slides and films were projected on dancers, canvases, and, in some iterations, an ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. The Dia Foundation has announced the inauguration of the Sam Gilliam Award, to be bestowed annually for the next ten years. Beginning in spring 2024, the $75,000 prize will be presented to an artist “residing anywhere in the world, who has made a significant contribution to any medium of art and for whom ...
