scholarly journals Materials in the Field: Object-trajectories and Object-positions in the Field of Contemporary Art

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Dominguez Rubio ◽  
Elizabeth B. Silva
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Spatial Trajectory ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Object Trajectories

The paper explores the central role of artworks in the field of contemporary art. It is based on an ethnographic study of the conservation laboratory at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and draws from three detailed case studies where the temporal and spatial trajectory of artworks led to processes of competition, collaboration, and repositioning among the agents involved in the acquisition, exhibition and conservation of these artworks. The study demonstrates the importance of artworks qua physical objects in the field of contemporary art, claiming attention to materiality in field theory and engaging with an object-oriented methodology in field analysis. Artworks are shown to intervene in field processes, both reproducing divisions and re-drawing boundaries within and between fields, and actualizing positions of individuals and institutions.

Exhibition 58: Modern Architecture in England, Museum of Modern Art, 1937

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 277-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Powers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Multiple Sequence ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Yorkers

Exhibition 58: Modern Architecture in England, held between 10 February and 7 March 1937 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), was a notable event. Amidst claims that ‘England leads the world in modern architectural activity’, the exhibition ‘amazed New Yorkers’ and equally surprised English commentators. However, it has not subsequently received any extended investigation. The present purpose is to look at it as a multiple sequence of events, involving other exhibitions, associated publications and the trajectories of individuals and institutions, through which tensions came to the surface about the definition and direction of Modernism in England and elsewhere. Such an analysis throws new light on issues such as the motives for staging the exhibition, the personnel involved and associated questions relating to the role of émigré architects in Britain and the USA, some of which have been misinterpreted in recent commentaries.Hitchcock's unequivocal claim for the importance of English Modernism at this point still arouses disbelief, and raises a question whether it can be accepted at face value or requires explaining in terms of some other hidden intention.

The “Global” Contemporary Art Canon and the Case of China

ARTMargins ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
Francesca Dal Lago
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Chinese Contemporary Art ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Academic Painting ◽  
Art Canon

This essay reviews the book Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents edited by Wu Hung and published by the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2010, as part of an ongoing series aiming to introduce art critical texts produced in non-mainstream art locales to an English-speaking audience. Gathering a large number of translated critical essays, the book outlines the production of Chinese Contemporary Art since what is normally accepted as its onset in the late 1970s. This essay argues that this process of definition, legitimized by the prominent publisher of this book, amounts to a form of canonization performed at the expenses of other contemporaneous artistic forms—ink and academic painting—whose culturally and historically specific nature de facto excludes them from a concept of art globalization still largely determined and rooted by Euro-American modernism.

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1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Halina Rusak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
York City ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art World ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Insight Into

My involvement as an artist and as an art librarian allows me to see a full spectrum of art history from its inception by an artist to its assessment by an art historian. It enables me to better understand the needs of faculty and students in the field of visual arts, as well as to interface effectively with faculty and scholars in art history. My gallery membership at SOHO 20 in New York City provides me with insight into art trends in the making. It demonstrates well a woman’s place in the contemporary art world, and a role of a critic in promoting or establishing an artist. I feel that this knowledge makes me a better librarian.

Alfred H. Barr, MoMA, and the Entrance and Exit of Outsider Art (1936–1943)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-25
Author(s):  
Dieter De Vlieghere
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Outsider Art ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Changing Role

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936), curated by Alfred H. Barr at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, was the first major exhibition of outsider art at the epicentre of the art world. The entrance of outsider art in the art museum coincided with the changing role of the curator: from a custodian of fine arts to an exhibition author with creative agency. The disconnection of outsider art from canonized art history and the peculiar appearance of the works and their makers inspired new curatorial narrations and settings. Barr’s inclusive vision of modern art and curation was, however, strongly criticized, and a few years later that vision was replaced by a hierarchical one demanding the exclusion of outsider art from the art museum. The developments at MoMA between 1936 and 1943 exemplify how outsider art served as a catalyst for the curatorial turn in which the division between the roles of curator and artist began to shift.

Loss of Voice at Oneida Indian Nation: Traditional Methods of Social Control in a Contemporary Native Community

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-110
Author(s):  
Michael Taylor
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
Loss Of Voice

This ethnographic study explores how contemporary Oneida people are using traditional beliefs and practices that are prescribed and enshrined in Haudenosaunee oral traditions to further their political ends. The current tribal government seeks to engender control over its citizens, affairs, and properties by using traditions of oral history to claim legitimacy. An overarching contention is over the process of governance as engendered by the process of consensus. This traditional Haudenosaunee practice is at the heart of the matter of the legitimacy of modern tribal government as it is used by the Oneida Nation of New York, including the use of banishment as a form of social control to ground its authority. "Loss of voice" has resulted in the disenrollment of those Oneida people who have been banished after questioning the current tribal government's legitimacy and practices. This essay reviews the actions of the Oneida Indian Nation as an evolving tribal authority as it attempts to reconcile the role of tradition, examining how authority is maintained in ongoing governance of contemporary tribal development.

Data-Driven Editorial? Considerations for Working With Audience Metrics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Petre
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
News Production ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Editorial Practice

Drawing on Caitlin Petre’s ethnographic study of Chartbeat, Gawker Media and The New York Times, this chapter explores the role of metrics in contemporary news production and offers recommendations to newsrooms incorporating metrics into editorial practice.

Documenting the art of our time: a new research facility for The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Milan R. Hughston
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Research Facility ◽  
Museum Archives ◽  
New Space ◽  
New Research ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Research Resources

The Museum of Modern Art’s ten-year building project provided new, purpose-built spaces for the library and museum archives, one of the world’s premier research resources documenting modern and contemporary art. This article summarizes the planning and implementation of the new space and reflects on its successes after six months of operations.

scholarly journals Grassroots Expertise at a New York City Community Board

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Waters
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Board Members ◽  
City Community ◽  
Community Board ◽  
Technical Capacity

In New York City and across the United States, neighborhood councils established by local governments are incorporating citizen participation into decision making while engaging issues that require them to use expert knowledge. These participatory projects can be seen as a way to check the pervasive and potentially undemocratic role of expertise in society, by creating a public setting in which experts’ advice can be exposed and criticized, and in which laypeople can attempt to influence policy processes that would ordinarily be dominated by experts. This ethnographic study investigates the fine-grained human interactions as members of a New York City community board in a low-income neighborhood engage land use and housing issues. It finds that they can partially overcome the challenge of expertise by developing their own technical capacity, and that this enhances board members’ influence. But it also finds that members encounter difficulties that cannot be remedied by more technical capacity. First, board members who develop expertise still lack complementary instrumentalities, such as access to insider information. And second, they find it difficult to juggle performance of their expert role with other roles they must play in their deliberations, especially the role of representing the community, which is essential if they are to influence elected officials through public opinion.

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