Julian Rose
Richard Nonas
June 2013
It is disconcerting to hear Richard Nonas refer to James Fuentes gallery, the site of his most recent solo show in New York, as an “uneasy, unsteady space,” until it becomes clear that this is a compliment. What he means is that the place… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
“Thomas Hirschhorn: Gramsci Monument”
May 2013
Curated by Yasmil Raymond In the South Bronx’s Forest Houses development, Thomas Hirschhorn and a team of local residents will soon begin constructing the fourth and final of the Swiss artist’s “monuments” to philosophers. This … READ ON
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“Richard Rogers: Inside Out”
May 2013
Curated by Jeremy Melvin In more ways than one, the career of British architect Richard Rogers has been defined by contradiction. Stylistically, he has merged a modernist faith in technology and the open plan with a colorful Pop-inflected … READ ON
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Anthony McCall
May 2013
Appropriately enough, given the beautiful paradox of “solid light” with which he refers to them, Anthony McCall’s projections are often described as simultaneously embodying film, sculpture, and drawing. But McCall’s recent show … READ ON
IN PRINT May 2013 [TOC]
CLOSE-UP: MIRROR TRAVEL
Julian Rose on Sarah Oppenheimer’s W-120301, 2012
April 2013
BREAKING THROUGH A WALL might have once seemed like a radical gesture, but by now it has become something of a cliché. From the pockmarked cavities of Lawrence Weiner’s 1968 A WALL CRATERED BY A SINGLE SHOTGUN BLAST, to the open gap in … READ ON
IN PRINT April 2013 [TOC]
“A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture From Southern California”
January 2013
Curated by Christopher Mount There is a certain irony in using the rubric of “sculpturalism” to encapsulate the influential architecture that has emerged from Southern California in recent decades, because its sculptural quality is now… READ ON
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TRADING SPACES: A ROUNDTABLE ON ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Thomas Demand, Hal Foster, Steven Holl, Sylvia Lavin, Hilary Lloyd, Dorit Margreiter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Rahm, moderated by Julian Rose
October 2012
Trading Spaces a roundtable on art and architecture Art and architecture meet more often and more profoundly today than ever before—from public art to the art-fair tent, from the pavilion to the installation. But if the interchange between… READ ON
IN PRINT October 2012 [TOC]
“Between Walls and Windows: Architecture and Ideology”
May 2012
Curated by Valerie Smith At least since the ascendancy of institutional critique in the 1960s, artists have been manipulating architecture as a means of revealing the ideologies it represents. Today, as architecture and art are increasingly… READ ON
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“Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream”
ARCHITECTURE
November 2011
TWO INTERRELATED CLAIMS provide the premise for “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” a recent workshop and forthcoming exhibition organized by the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2011 [TOC]
STRUCTURAL TENSION: THE ART OF OSCAR TUAZON
October 2010
IT’S EASY ENOUGH to see the work of Oscar Tuazon as a vehement attack on architecture. The Paris-based artist’s two most recent shows, for example—an untitled project at the Kunsthalle Bern and My Mistake at London’s Institute of … READ ON