Magnum Investigating Archive over Images of Alleged Child . . . - Artforum Arthur’s statement drew rebuke online, where many condemned the use of the word “historical” as a way for Magnum to absolve itself of responsibility for the images in question, many of which flout UNICEF’s guidelines for ethically documenting children
STRUCTURAL TENSION: THE ART OF OSCAR TUAZON Many contemporary artists, curators, and critics share the assumption that the physical alteration of an exhibition space amounts to an inherently devastating assault on architecture, whether understood as a specific critique of the institution displaying the work or as a more generalized criticism of architecture’s position in the culture at large
Barbara DeGenevieve’s provocative photography and film at SAIC She exhorted her students to define “problematic,” appreciate abjection, and flout knee-jerk proprieties In her art, she deploys sex as a metaphor for the outlawed desires and cheap fictions that rot America from the inside out, the dank recesses of the national id that she called the country’s “soft underbelly ”
On the Tuileries Slave Memorial Jury “Impasse” - Artforum Next let me turn to the choice of the jurors associated with CM98 to flout the procedures of rational deliberation that define the selection process to which it initially consented: that Call for Applications could not have been issued without the prior agreement of all jurors to the guidelines to be applied during the decision-making process
Jean-Luc Moulène - Artforum And deform these knots Moulène does: He seems to relish destruction through creation The majority of his sculptures—particularly the seven based on prime knots—steadfastly flout math-textbook ideals of depictive clarity Rather than reveal their structure, the bronze Noeud 5 1 Varia 02 (Paris, 2012) and its ilk are blasted, bony wraiths
THE CONFORMISTS: THE ART OF GENERAL IDEA - Artforum Paradoxically, General Idea had seemed to flout the idea of art as art as idea of Reinhardt Kosuth, only to revisit their premises in new ways As artists, they couldn’t only be in the streets It was more interesting and more productive to bring art’s many parts together into a system that wove together inside and out
“Decriminalised Futures” - Artforum In one sense, sex workers who refuse to be cowed by stigma flout social conventions that continue to condemn female promiscuity and promote sexual discretion Moreover, as a spokeswoman for the Marxist-feminist English Collective of Prostitutes wrote in 1977, “Prostitute women put a price on a service all women are expected to provide for