Not exact matches
Besides the interior exhibition with
artworks from its collection
occupying an entire floor of the museum, outside the Tate building there is The Source (2012), a video installation
by the American multimedia artist Doug Aitken.
'' Join us for the unveiling of the landmark
artwork, «Symphony in DC Major,» commissioned
by City Market at O and created
by renowned sculptor and third - generation Washingtonian, Zachary Oxman, The massive three - part sculpture,
occupying an entire city block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma Thomas.
There were good
artworks, such as a new sculpture
by Ernesto Neto, where people could rest in a hammock, and an Op Art installation
by Julio Le Parc, but they did not share a clear dialogue with the space they were
occupying.
Kassel's Fridericianum, a neoclassical building that typically serves as the central node of Documenta, is
occupied mainly
by artworks on loan from EMST's collection, and it was impossible to miss the 1978 Gong
by Takis — an electromagnet periodically crashes into a huge hanging metal sheet, sending a painful boom through the first floor of the museum.
In 2012,
Occupy Museums launched Debtfair, an exhibition and organizing platform that groups artists and
artworks by their debts and other financial realities.
House Arrest is curated
by Terri C Smith whose approach to the installation will significantly alter the physical qualities of the space's three galleries, creating living rooms of
artworks that are informed
by the history of Franklin Street Works» Victorian row house buildings — originally working class homes — as well as the makeshift domestic situations at recent political protest sites such as
Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park.
The final room of the exhibition features
artworks by Jorge Pardo and George Segal, both of whose works make use of light and the space they
occupy as formal elements.
One corner of the space is
occupied by a small, self - enclosed room (designated the «L. Fong Healing Arts Center,» an allusion to one of McGee's pseudonyms), which the artist built to house a floor - to - ceiling installation of
artworks and videos
by his friends and acquaintances.