During the 1960s, artists from Alan Kaprow and Yoko Ono to Andy Warhol and Richard Serra stopped making "art" as it has been thought of since the Renaissance. They staged performances that mixed everyday life with theater and in yet other, often ironic, ways challenged the system of marketing, display, and aesthetic discourse that ascribes exceptional monetary as well as cultural value to paintings and sculpture. Work Ethic, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, brings together a cross section of such radical...
During the 1960s, artists from Alan Kaprow and Yoko Ono to Andy Warhol and Richard Serra stopped making "art" as it has been thought of since the R...
"New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties--these and many other happy memories live on through the magic of color slides." --Kodak instruction manual, 1967
Interview with Darsie Alexander, Curator, BMA, August 2004
Since the Renaissance, most art has been prized because of the prodigious skills that went into its making. Why would any artist choose to work with slides?
It's tempting to see slide projection as quick and easy. Indeed, many artists cite these qualities when...
"New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties--these and many other ...
