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Les Immatériaux Revisited: Innovation in Innovations: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
The author introduces her in-depth survey of the exhibitionLes Immatériaux, conducted during the show at the Centre Pompidou …
From Over- to Sub-Exposure: The Anamnesis of Les Immatériaux: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
Les Immatériaux, Jean-François Lyotard’s and Thierry Chaput’s 1985 groundbreaking exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, is discussed as …
Curating by Numbers: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This paper looks back at the author’s curatorial practice, with a focus on her ‘number shows’ and their randomly ordered …
Unconcealment: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
Sophie Richard’s analysis, published posthumously in 2009, of the role played by the networks of artists, dealers, museum curators, collectors …
Les Immatériaux or How to Construct the History of Exhibitions: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
The 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux – curated by French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput at the Centre Pompidou in …
Biennials Without Borders?: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
The popularity of art biennials has been taken as proof of the collapse of the concept of the centre and …
The Other Story and the Past Imperfect
The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision …
Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Lines of Force
Rodchenko’s research into the concept of line was fundamental to the ambitions of Russian constructivism. Careful examination of his paintings …
The Grid as a Checkpoint of Modernity
In Western art history the grid has been positioned as an emblem of modernism. In Russia, however, early constructivist artists …
Are Images Global?
This text discusses questions of definition and of translation, both textual and cultural, in relation to local and global understandings …
Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left
This paper reviews the challenges of attempting to negotiate complex cultural differences between the West and other parts of the …
On the Politics of Art and Space in Beirut
This paper considers the changing nature of art spaces in Beirut over the last fifteen years. Contrary to the experiences …
Border Crossing
Nahnou-Together is a partnership programme involving art museums and an informal art school, in Amman, Damascus and London. This paper …
A Technical Study of Picasso’s Construction Still Life 1914
This paper explores Picasso’s approach to sculptural materials during the cubist years through a close examination of his 1914 construction …
Living in the Long Front
This essay offers a history and critical evaluation of ideas put forward by the critic Lawrence Alloway in the late …
The Artist as Educator: Examining Relationships between Art Practice and Pedagogy in the Gallery Context
This paper explores the relationship between art practice and dialogic forms of gallery education. Drawing on interviews with selected artists, …
Experiments in Integrated Programming
Many contemporary artists operate beyond the studio and traditional exhibition spaces, providing both a need and an opportunity for galleries …
The Body is Present Even if in Disguise: Tracing the Trace in the Artwork of Nancy Spero and Ana Mendieta
In the early 1990s Nancy Spero (born 1926) composed a series of homages to the Cuban artist, Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). …
Turner Prize 2008 Reading Room Report
How did the public respond to the Reading Room in the 2008 Turner Prize exhibition? This report suggests ways in …
Tools to Understand: An Evaluation of the Interpretation Material used in Tate Modern’s Rothko Exhibition
Renate Meijer and Minnie Scott, Tools to Understand: An Evaluation of the Interpretation Material used in Tate Modern’s Rothko Exhibition, …