Articles By: Maren Miller

Maren Miller is a writer and an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She has had several shows of her sculpture and video work in the New York area. Maren is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art and is originally from Los Angeles, California.
Wed, Aug 12 2009
John Baldessari on Art at the Venice Biennale

John Baldessari on Art at the Venice Biennale

A Conversation with John Baldessari, Daniel Birnbaum, and Steven Henry Madoff Daniel Birnbaum, curator of the 53rd Venice Biennale, and Steven Henry Madoff talk to John Baldessari about his art, life,... 

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Thu, Jul 16 2009
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976

Jan Dibbets. Untitled. 1969. Photolithographed postcard. In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, the new show at MOMA, is a portrait of the Amsterdam conceptual art scene. This “scene,”... 

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Thu, Jul 16 2009
Chinese Artist Xing Xin to Live in Metal Box for 49 Days

Chinese Artist Xing Xin to Live in Metal Box for 49 Days

Just outside this year’s Venice Biennale someone has welded themselves inside an iron box. Fortunately, the box is equipped with waterproof LED TVs connected to two internal cameras. Xing Xin, a... 

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Fri, Jul 10 2009
The Columns Held Us Up

The Columns Held Us Up

The Columns Held Us Up opened yesterday at Artists Space, a show done in partnership with the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of Istanbul. Offering itself as a kind of interim space, Artists... 

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Wed, Jul 8 2009
Book Launch for New Geographies #1

Book Launch for New Geographies #1

Yesterday, the Storefront for Art and Architecture launched #1 (meaning, technically, #2) of the new urbanism/architecture/design journal, “New Geographies”. This issue explores the conditions... 

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Wed, Jun 10 2009
Reciprocal Representation

Reciprocal Representation

2009, Cooper Union’s 150th anniversary, has been a particularly high-profile year for the school. After three years of construction, the massive New Academic Building has finally taken shape on... 

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Thu, Apr 16 2009
The Architecture of Collaboration

The Architecture of Collaboration

What is the role of the architect in contemporary society? As the gap between the very rich and the very poor cracks wider, so do the emerging poles of architectural practice. At one end is the cult of... 

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Tue, Apr 14 2009
Younger Than Jesus

Younger Than Jesus

  The New Museum’s new show, Younger than Jesus, is the broadest of surveys of what’s going on in the minds of art-world youngsters. While this is not particularly ground-breaking territory to investigate,... 

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