When Marcel Duchamp shipped Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Space to Edward Steichen in 1926, New York customs officials refused to accept that it was a work of art, instead levying the standard import tariff for a manufactured object. A legal battle ensued, with the courts eventually declar[...]
This catalogue provides a comprehensive document of Goshka Macuga's Bloomberg Commission, The Nature of the Beast, exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery from April 2009 - April 2010. The catalogue includes an introduction by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick and curator Kirsty Ogg, as well [...]
In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old and a student at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, walked back and forth along a straight line in the grass in the English countryside, leaving a track that he then photographed in black and white. The resulting work, A Line Made by Walking, was[...]
"Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A" accompanies the first museum survey exhibition of the work of Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967). Macuga's practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have done much to define the landscape of contemporary art in the last decade: on[...]