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RE: Re-
By Marcia E. VetrocqOur understanding of the art of the near and distant past is now bound up with the ways we deploy and respond to an array of replicas and re-enactment.
Bern 1969 /Venice 2013
By Keith SonnierThe experience of working in Venice last May for the recreation of When Attitudes Become Form was not quite as uncertain as during the run-up to the original exhibition in Bern.
PLACES WITH A PAST
New Site-Specific Art in Charleston Belongs to its Place and Time
By Michael Brenson
Place: Charleston. In 1958 Gian Carlo Menotti founded the Spoleto Festival in the medieval Italian hill town of Spoleto. In 1977 he moved the festival to the no less picturesque and pedestrian-friendly but even more hospitable South Carolina port city. Charleston is inviting. It breathes history.
Recollection of an “Incident”
By Maria Elena GonzálezOne exhibition that I saw back in 1992 still resonates, both literally and figuratively, for me today: Ilya Kabakov’s Incident at the Museum or Water Music at the Ronald Feldman Gallery.
ANTONIO MANUEL: I WANT TO ACT, NOT REPRESENT!
The Re-Enactment of Historical Works from the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
By Claudia Calirman
The issue of re-staging historical works and actions became a sticking point when Gabriela Rangel and I co-curated the exhibition Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! at the Americas Society (September – December 2011).
Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
By Lawrence WeinerDEAR MARCIA VETROCQ. REGARDING: REPLAY THE ATTITUDES EXHIBITION I WAS MOST IMPRESSED BY THE CARE & ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE WORKS & THE ATTEMPT TO RE-CREATE A PHYSICAL MISE-EN-SCENE WITHIN THE AMBIANCE OF THE ORIGINAL INSTALLATION
Reinstallation and the Real
By Caroline A. JonesWithout the copy, the “original” could scarcely be conceived. After all, it was the centuries-long education from copies that impelled Pliny to sigh over the Greek-made/Roman-commissioned Laocoön as “a work to be preferred to all others.”
