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Built in the late 19th century with funds raised by the 7th New York Militia Regiment of the National Guard, it is large enough to house an indoor drill hall.Since 2006 it has operated as an art venue, its program including a broad variety of genres and media, often with one artist's work insta...

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Published in:Millennium film journal 2017-04 (65), p.6-7
Main Author: Weinbren, Grahame
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alpert, Jon
Architecture
Artists
Claerbout, David
Digital video
Elcott, Noam
Fenton, Jamie
Fitzgibbon, Coleen
Fowler, Eve
Installation art
McLean, Jesse
Motion pictures
Museums
Perry, Sondra
Racism
Rist, Pipilotti
Rosefeldt, Julian
Simnett, Marianna
Tsuno, Keiko
Video art
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Summary:Built in the late 19th century with funds raised by the 7th New York Militia Regiment of the National Guard, it is large enough to house an indoor drill hall.Since 2006 it has operated as an art venue, its program including a broad variety of genres and media, often with one artist's work installed in the drill hall and ancillary spaces.For Yoon, Perry's idiosyncratic use of processblue serves as a reminder of the covert racist biases of Western media-biases that are discernible, for instance, in the way the color palette of film and video was developed to depict white European skin, an historical practice that rendered accurate representations of darker skin impossible.The walls of the New Museum were painted dark colors, but disappeared in an exhibition space transformed into a forest of distractions, filled with soft and hard projection surfaces, and, on one floor, beds for viewers to gaze at projections above them.[...]in the center of the issue, Tom Sherman's artist pages invoke questions related to McLean's investigations.
ISSN:1064-5586