Articles By: SMAC

Fri, Feb 19 2010
Hal Foster

Hal Foster

This lecture concerns a different position within Modernist practice, neither vanguard nor resistant, which proceeds by way of a mimetic exacerbation of the worst conditions in contemporary society. ABOUT... 

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Sun, Dec 27 2009
A Portrait on Chris Burden by Newport Harbor Art Museum

A Portrait on Chris Burden by Newport Harbor Art Museum

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Tue, Oct 27 2009
To Save and Project (Curator Interview)

To Save and Project (Curator Interview)

MoMA puts on its 7th annual restoration/preservation film festival, To Save and Project, exhibiting over 25 films. SMAC has here interviewed the Assistant Curator, Joshua Siegel, who describes in detail... 

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Sat, Oct 24 2009
Is the Future Green? The Biopolitics of Sustainability in Contemporary Art and Design

Is the Future Green? The Biopolitics of Sustainability in Contemporary Art and Design

Taking the recent hi-profile cultural activities surrounding Al Gore’s climate change campaign as the point of entry, this talk will address how the increasingly prominent trope of sustainability... 

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Thu, Oct 22 2009
Douglas Crimp: Action Around the Edges

Douglas Crimp: Action Around the Edges

A lecture drawn from Cripm’s memoir in progress of New York City in the 1970s. This portion deals with the de-industrializing city as a space of experimentation for artists and gay men, with a particular... 

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Fri, Oct 9 2009
Guggenheim announces finalists for the Hugo Boss prize.

Guggenheim announces finalists for the Hugo Boss prize.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has chosen the six finalists for its 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, Carol Vogel reports for the New York Times. The hundred-thousand-dollar award, given every two years and... 

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Tue, Oct 6 2009
DVD release of Chantal Akerman’s FROM THE EAST (D’Est)

DVD release of Chantal Akerman’s FROM THE EAST (D’Est)

“Comparable in force and originality to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation.” — J. Hoberman, The Village Voice Today... 

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Mon, Oct 5 2009
Myths of the West: Photographers, Filmmakers, and Writers

Myths of the West: Photographers, Filmmakers, and Writers

In conjunction with Into the Sunset at the MoMA, which examines how photography has pictured the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present, this panel features photographers, a filmmaker, and... 

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Mon, Oct 5 2009
Ron Arad: No Discipline

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Chairs have a special place in the heart of designers. Designer Ron Arad calls them ‘containers for invisible sitters.’ In this video produced by MoMA Rod Arad gives a tour through his impressive... 

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Sun, Oct 4 2009
Daniel Libeskind’s 17 words of architectural inspiration

Daniel Libeskind’s 17 words of architectural inspiration

Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture — raw, risky, emotional, radical — and that offer inspiration for any bold creative... 

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