{"id":204,"date":"2011-04-04T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp\/?p=204"},"modified":"2011-09-04T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T22:06:29","slug":"rirkrit_tiravanija_fear_eats_t_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/2011\/04\/rirkrit_tiravanija_fear_eats_t_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Rirkrit Tiravanija: Fear Eats the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_esUdvAUc4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Talking About Relational Aesthetics <\/em>by John Perreault 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">What Is Relational Aesthetics?<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Formulated by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud to explain the work of his favored artists, Relational Aesthetics is difficult to pin down. Maybe it&#8217;s like jazz. When Louis Armstrong was asked what jazz was, he answered, &#8220;If you have to ask, you&#8217;ll never know.&#8221; But Armstrong was not a French intellectual steeped, stewed or pickled in &#8220;theory.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">In 1996, Bourriaud encapsuled his flight of fancy as:<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;&#8230;a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">What?<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">I would say instead that Relational Art consists of convivial, socializing, interactive, non-object, artist-audience collaborations. Sort of.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">No blood. And if there&#8217;s meat, it&#8217;s cooked.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">Bourriaud offers some insights in his short collection of essays called <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Relational Aesthetics<\/i>: (1.) Paired objects are stand-ins for gay relationships in the work of F\u00e9lix Gonz\u00e1lez<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">-Torres. (2.) Unlike the other arts, visual art allows viewer conversations during perception. Never mind that Elizabethan theater had vocal audiences, as did burlesque and kiddie movie matinees. Nevertheless, you may want to read his essays to feel out the warp of contemporary art-discourse. We ourselves, as you may have noted, are not opposed to elliptical exposition, but if you want a bigger dose, access a section from Bourriaud&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.creativityandcognition.com\/blogs\/legart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Borriaud.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/font><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"rirkritinterior.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/rirkritinterior.jpg\" width=\"501\" height=\"376\" \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><strong><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" size=\"3\"><strong>Rirkrit Tiravaija: <em>Fear Eats The Soul<\/em>. (detail: gallery alteration) photo: John Perreault.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><strong><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><strong>Not the Death of Art, but the Death of the Artist<o:p><\/o:p><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Critic Hal Foster warned in the mid-1990s that &#8220;the institution may overshadow the work that it otherwise highlights: it becomes the spectacle, it collects the cultural capital, and the director-curator becomes the star.&#8221; Was he predicting Relational Aesthetics?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Well, 15 years later, Hal, it hasn&#8217;t really happened &#8212; has it? And besides, director-curators have always had a profile of sorts, if not exactly stardom on the level of Andy Warhol. But, like most artists, they fade. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Wasn&#8217;t Henry Geldzahler a star? What about art dealers? Wasn&#8217;t Leo Castelli more famous than some of his artists? In the &#8217;60s, a young, very, very rich collector in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Miami Beach<\/st1:City><\/st1:place> once announced to me that Leo Castelli was her god. Art dealers would kill for customers like that. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">But to the quick. Whether he wants to be or not, Rirkrit Tiravanija is a star; curator Nicholas Bourriaud, who formulated Relational Aesthetics, is not.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\"><strong>&nbsp;Eat This Art<\/strong><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/soupfixed.jpg\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"soupfixed.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/soupfixed-thumb-247x181-19609.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"181\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">A few weeks ago, as I was finishing my delicious bowl of coconut-chicken soup at Tiravanija&#8217;s exhibition (&#8220;Fear Eats the Soul&#8221; at Gavin Brown&#8217;s enterprise, <st1:address w:st=\"on\"><st1:Street w:st=\"on\">620 Greenwich St.<\/st1:Street><\/st1:address>, at Leroy,<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>to April 16) the artist himself made an appearance in the salon\/lunchroom part of the exhibition. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">I include the cross-street of the address, because you should know that this venue is definitely outside <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Chelsea<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>. Yes, there is art outside of <st1:City w:st=\"on\">Chelsea<\/st1:City>, even though you might have to take a cab or walk 20 blocks crosstown through quaint Greenwich Village nearly to the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Hudson<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Here&#8217;s a soup I am sorry I missed:<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">MENU &#8211; Thursday March 17<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Tempermental (sic) <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>Pumpkin Soup<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Pumpkins (roasted and pureed)<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Onions<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Vegetable Stock<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Garlic<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Coconut milk<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Chipotle peppers (in adobe sauce)<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Curry powder (Indian)<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Cinnamon<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Sea salt<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Honey<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Mint (fresh)<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">In a big stockpot saute onions till caramelized<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Add curry powder <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Blend chipotle peppers and garlic, add to onion mixture<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Add vegetable stock, bring to a boil<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Add coconut milk<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Add pureed pumpkin and cinnamon<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Season with salt and a bit of honey to taste<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Reduce heat and let soup simmer till flavors are well integrated<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Garnish with fresh chopped mint (optional)<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/soupnosoup.com\/\">here<\/a> for other soups served and a short history of soup.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">The Tiravanija hangout, replete with neo-Expressionist paintings by the uncredited Dutch artist who originally made the space as his own salon, has been transferred<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>from <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Amsterdam<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>. Tiravanija in the past has done similar transplants &#8212; once his own <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">East<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Village<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> apartment.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Even midweek his funky cafeteria was packed with arty, chatty soup-slurpers, leaving the stripped-down, ripped-open showrooms next door bare and beautiful. He has also done architectural strip-downs before. Here, window frames are artfully leaning here and there against the walls, and the space is wide open, as if to remember its garage origin. The word <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">FEAR<\/i> takes up one long wall. Yes, &#8220;Fear Eats the Soul&#8221; refers to the Fassbinder film. And in the midst of it all is a locked, free-standing cubicle replicating Tiravanija&#8217;s first show with Gavin Brown: chromed versions of various Warhol sculpture, described in the press release as follows:<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">In 1994, Tiravanija made\/curated a two-person show with his other half, Andy Warhol. It was a hybrid retrospective of sorts for each artist. Tiravanija created a binary setup of three pairs of work, with one work by each artist in each pair: A Mao and a stack of beer bottles; a Brillo box and a wok; a bed and a pile of books and movies. Each pair created a metaphysical and cultural bridge across time and space from one world to another. Each side looking at the other in the mirror and being disgusted at themselves. One side surface and mediated, the other dirty and touched, but both steeped in melancholia and necrophilia.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px; FLOAT: right\" class=\"mt-image-right\" alt=\"_MG_9803aandyshow.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/_MG_9803aandyshow.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"253\" \/>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Who would have guessed the artist would soon cook up a storm?<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/Eats%20Opening_Ruthie%20Abel-7.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Eats Opening_Ruthie Abel-7.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/Eats Opening_Ruthie Abel-7-thumb-320x240-19611.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" size=\"3\">Tiravanija: <em>Fear Eats The Soul <\/em>, opening reception (in the soup kitchen). <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">And there&#8217;s another free-standing cubicle where you can buy t-shirts ($20) with various &#8220;mottos&#8221; stenciled on them, to order if need be. <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/teesfixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"teesfixed.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/teesfixed-thumb-301x401-19614.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a>My shirt was printed by a young man who kept saying he would have to close for awhile because he was starving. I had FEAR EATS THE SOUL made up for my Jeff because he liked the movie so much and often wears the <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Empire<\/i> (<st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">State<\/st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Building<\/st1:PlaceType>) t-shirt I brought him from the <st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Andy<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Warhol<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Museum<\/st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Pittsburgh<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Artopia aims to be of service. You can order the <a href=\"http:\/\/TSHIRTNOTSHIRT.COM\">T-shirts <\/a>online. And while you are at it, read a history of t-shirts.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">After the charming schoolgirls with pencils and pads were through interviewing Tiravanija, I introduced myself. I had met him in &#8217;88, when he was collaborating with artist Bob Roberts on an exhibition at the New York Experimental&nbsp;Glass Workshop. I asked him if he still had his apartment a block from mine on <\/font><st1:address w:st=\"on\"><st1:Street w:st=\"on\"><font size=\"3\">East 7<\/font><sup><font size=\"2\">th<\/font><\/sup><font size=\"3\"> Street<\/font><\/st1:Street><\/st1:address><font size=\"3\">. He did. But, of course, I know he also works in <st1:State w:st=\"on\">Berlin<\/st1:State> and is an art nomad like many artists now: <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Japan<\/st1:country-region>, <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Minneapolis<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>, wherever. He is a natural post-national. He is Thai, but was born in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Buenos Aires<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>, and because his father was a diplomat, he lived in many places as a child.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;I hope you won&#8217;t be upset,&#8221; I said, &#8220;but I have to ask you how it feels to be identified all the time as the Relational Aesthetics poster boy.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Naked,&#8221; he answered.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 168pt; mso-add-space: auto\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 168pt; mso-add-space: auto\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Tiravanija&#8217;s food art is now part of the international art vocabulary. Although he has done outdoor movie projections, videos, room alterations and realist drawings of newspaper photos of political demonstrations (seen at the Drawing Center not too long ago), he is still best known for his temporary kitchens in which food is cooked and offered to visitors.<\/span><\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">When you listen to him speak, you might get the feeling that Bourriaud lifted all of his ideas from him. Unlike Bourriaud, however, Tiravanija is a utopian. Read what he recently said about his project at the <st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Walker<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Art<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:PlaceName> in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Minneapolis<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>, and then take a look at the video below. The interview takes awhile to get going, but stick with it.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">The situation is not about looking at art. It is about being in the space, participating to an activity. The nature of the visit has shifted to emphasize on the gallery as a space for social interaction. The transfer of such activities as cooking, eating or sleeping into the realm of the exhibition space put visitors into very intimate if unexpected contact; the displacement creates an acute awareness of the notion of public and private, the installations function like scientific experiments: the displacement becomes a tool and exposes the way scientific thought processes are constructed. The visitor becomes a participant in that experiment.&#8217;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp; <embed height=\"248\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hIpQgaP2AgI\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed> <\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">The Short List<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Bourriaud&#8217;s Relational Art candidates are mostly artists he has dealt with as a curator, first at CAPC Bordeaux in his 1996 groundbreaking show &#8220;Traffic,&#8221; then as co-director of Palais de Tokyo, Paris.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Dominique Gonzalez-Foerister<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; who last year showed dioramas with old books dumped into them at the abandoned quarters of the New-York Historical Society under the aegis of the Museum of Hispanic Art, sponsored by the Dia Foundation. She designed a Balenciaga shop in L.A., too.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Douglas Gordon<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; famous, and rightly so, for his <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">24-Hour Psycho<\/i> (Hitchcock&#8217;s film slowed down so it takes a full day and night to see the whole thing).<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><font color=\"#000000\">F\u00e9lix Gonz\u00e1lez<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">-Torres<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/b><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; neo-Minimal, gay, brilliant and, alas, dead. Piles of wrapped candy, yours for the taking.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Rirkrit Tiravanija<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; Mr. Relational Aesthetics, and with good reason.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Jorge Pardo<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; recycles midcentury design to no account that I can see. Ruined the floors of the lobby of the old Dia building with &#8220;colorful&#8221; tile-work.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Pierre Huyghe<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; can&#8217;t get a handle on him yet.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Vanessa Beecroft<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8211; masses of naked women.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Liam Gillick<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"> &#8212; like his neo-Judd sculptures, but&#8230;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Maurizio Cattelan<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">, the Italian comedian. Can we ever forget his sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Later additions: <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Gabriel Orozco<\/b> &#8212; a few oranges and a Volkswagen joke at MoMA.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Andrea Zittel<\/b> with her usable sculptures is less of a problem.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Although at the time Bourriaud claimed that Relational Art was <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">the<\/i> art of the &#8217;90s, &#8212; which continues to inspire the phrase &#8220;It&#8217;s so &#8217;90s!&#8221; &#8211; curator Nancy Spector&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/2008\/11\/theanyspacewhateverreview.html\">theanyspacewhatever<\/a>&#8221; show &#8211; yes, it was really called that &#8212; at the Guggenheim in &#8217;08, finally confirmed the avant-garde credentials of Relational Aesthetics by being roundly attacked from all sides. Many, perhaps too many, of the artists were from Bourriaud&#8217;s list. It was a sleeper, but not in the way you might first think. You could make reservations, fork over some dough, and sleep all night in Carsten <\/span><\/span><span style=\"COLOR: black\">H\u00f6ller<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'\">&#8216;s <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Revolving Hotel Room<\/i>. Now, there are single-room &#8220;hotels&#8221; sprouting up as art projects all over the place: London, Singapore. But the show was so boring it put most viewers to sleep, even while on their feet.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">It proved once again that artists don&#8217;t always know what they are doing. New Museum founder Marcia Tucker once went down the road of extreme artist-input and eventually learned her lesson. But wisdom does not get passed from museum to museum. Shockingly, &#8220;thea<\/span><\/span><span style=\"COLOR: black\">nyspacewhatever&#8221; <span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'\">took four years of meetings with the artists. Spector thought that the artists should make all the major decisions about the exhibition. And what did this stellar group of international collaborators decide? Brand new, individual artworks by each of them!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">In Artopia, we truly believe that everyone is an artist (Beuys) and everyone is a star (Warhol), including directors\/curators, critics and even dealers. In art there is no dark side. Or, as some would have it, all art is ultimately on the dark side, since art as it is now practiced tends to separate people from social action and from each other.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Well, so what? So do all the other major religions.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/popefixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"popefixed.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/popefixed-thumb-401x268-19616.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">Maurizio Cattelan: <em>Pope John Paul II. <\/em><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><em><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\"><\/font><\/em><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">All Families Art the Same<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Dear Reader, perhaps you are still staring at the Relational Art shortlist above and wondering how it can make any sense. Perhaps out of curiosity you have even Googled the names. I stared at the lineup for quite awhile too until I came up with the solution.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">Unless there is a poet-dictator in charge, like Marinetti or <\/span><\/span><font color=\"#000000\">Pope Andr\u00e9 Breton<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\">, most art movements consist of artists who do not follow rules from above &#8212; or from the side. At best, artists in an art movement bear a family resemblance. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein used games for his brilliant formulation of his anti-Aristotelian family resemblance trope. We can use Abstract Expressionism or Pop Art as examples. In regard to AE, neither kingmaker Clement Greenberg nor Harold Rosenberg could make his rules stick. Greenberg merely said that the art that didn&#8217;t fit his rule wasn&#8217;t worth looking at. Think about this: what do de Kooning and Pollock have in common and what do the two have in common with Rothko or Newman? There&#8217;s a family resemblance. Same for the art grouped as Pop.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">One big family; each member different, but somehow related. I have my father&#8217;s steel-blue eyes, but my mother&#8217;s taste in food. My sister is blond like Mom, but I am not; more reddish like my father&#8217;s aunt Blanche. And none of my nephews look like me at all.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">This has some interesting philosophical ramifications, but never mind about that. I don&#8217;t want to be accused again of solving problems you didn&#8217;t know you had. <\/font><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Suffice it to say that a Wittgensteinian family is formed by horizontal relationships of shared traits that are not universal within each item in the set. No characteristics are necessary and sufficient. Think sociogram or rhizomes rather than royal or Roman Catholic hierarchy. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">However, the above only proves Perreault&#8217;s Paradox: Qualifications in the name of clarification lead to obfuscation. Or as Alfred Jarry might have said: clarity is opaque.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">However, so Francocentric and so beholden to &#8220;theory&#8221; is Bourriaud that he himself hasn&#8217;t noticed the problem we have just solved for him. And for free. His artists don&#8217;t look like they belong together. His group makes Douglas Crimp&#8217;s Pictures Generation and the YBAs (Young British Artists) &#8212; both exhibition-generated, curator-concocted classifications &#8212;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>appear completely rational in retrospect. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">We now face something new. Whether we think of art-movement proposals as made up of ranks, families, or even political parties, it is difficult to tell them apart. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Alas, Bourriaud has other problems even I can&#8217;t solve. He actually claims that Relational Art is the first art movement\/style since Conceptual Art that is not a revival, which, like many of his points, once you tease them from the text, does give pause. Is it true? Only relatively. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Even Conceptual Art was not super-new or too new. We who knew Duchamp already had a roadmap.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">There are so many precedents for Relational Art that it is more accurately seen as a continuation or mash-up of Fluxus, Happenings, environments,<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Performance Art, Situational Art, and, yes, Conceptual Art, rather than anything revelatory or game-changing. Relational Art is only one of many modes or forms that artists feel free to use. Focus is now too easily read as appeasing the art market. The interactive is attractive, but each artist is now the producer of his own group show.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Maybe that&#8217;s the best we can do without kicking out the jams. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/fearinterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"fearinterior.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/fearinterior-thumb-451x301-19618.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span>Tiravanija: <em>Fear Eats the Soul<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">(detail).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">The October Trials <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">In his favor, many of Bourriaud&#8217;s points have been attacked by the October gang. See here Claire Bishop&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalutility.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Claire-Bishop_Antagonism-and-Relational-Aesthetics.pdf\">Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics<\/a>.&#8221; <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">In this October screed, Bishop describes the work of Tiravanija and Liam Gillick, not so much to attack them or rip apart the thin fabric of Bourriaud&#8217;s &#8220;argument,&#8221; but ultimately to promote in contrast two of her own favorites: Thomas Hirschhorn and Santiago Sierra. The first is still a mystery to me, but Sierra is now an official art-world Bad Boy. In 2000, his work <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Ten People Paid to Masturbate<\/i> was exactly that; and in 2001 he produced <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Persons Paid To Have Their Hair Dyed Blond<\/i> for the Venice Biennale. And then, whether they are faked or not, there&#8217;s his intentionally notorious penetration pieces &#8212; pictures of groups of black men penetrating white men, white men penetrating white men and the reverse, and black men penetrating white woman. An attack on the commodification of sex, or itself an example of same? You tell me.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">If I were teaching now, I would assign Bishop&#8217;s essay and ask the students to identify the main subject of her bottom-heavy, heavily footnoted essay. I would fail any who said it was about Relational Aesthetics.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Her artists are somehow more pure because they contest or reveal capitalist relations, or at least she thinks they do. Or is it because Relational artists smell utopian and her pets do not?<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">I see Relational Aesthetics as utopian. Oddly enough, Bourriaud himself is a knee-jerk <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">anti-utopian<\/i>, which you have to be if you have read Foucault and not been aware that he once confessed that his life-long influence had been life-long Nazi Martin Heidegger. Bad poetry is sometimes seductive. Wouldn&#8217;t you choose Being instead of industrialization? But blood, soil, and the <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">volk<\/i>? Maybe like others, Foucault did not know that Heidegger wasn&#8217;t really de-Nazified, as claimed. Not even Heidegger&#8217;s ex-girlfriend Hannah Arendt seemed to know. Sartre spoke up for him too.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Furthermore, did Bourriaud not remember Joseph Beuys&#8217; concept of social sculpture? Had he forgotten the Situationalists? Oops. No excuse. They were French!<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Why was he so late in coming to Marcel Duchamp&#8217;s famous lecture called <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">The Creative Act<\/i>:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>&#8220;&#8230;The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.&#8221; <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Theory is rhetoric.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">My theory is that &#8220;theory&#8221; &#8211; so impenetrable, so inbred &#8212; is the reason there have been so few important French artists since the School of Nice. And&nbsp;since the rise of the October gang&nbsp;in the U.S., we have not been doing so well ourselves, have we? Theory cramps art; thought does not.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">The French are amazing, particularly when they try to catch up. It is as if the French language and its product, French theory, automatically screen out anything that happens on this side of the Atlantic. Tiravanija himself gives full credit to Gordon Matta-Clark as represented by that artist&#8217;s short-lived, artist-run restaurant Food, and I would think his architectural interventions.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><s><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><span style=\"TEXT-DECORATION: none\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/s><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">Bourriaud needs to study the Artopia theory of art history. Nothing ever goes away; everything always comes back &#8212; like the strands in a braid. Or, as I like to say, history, particularly art history, is twisted. There is not even the Nietchzean Eternal Return. There is only a knot, and all knots are braids.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span>*<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>* <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>*<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><font size=\"3\">The correct answers to our word-art quiz last time around:<\/font><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"><o:p><font size=\"3\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Robert Barry .jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/Robert Barry -thumb-320x252-19484.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"252\" \/><\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A.<u>&nbsp;&nbsp; Lawrence Weiner&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"images (4).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/images%20%284%29.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"266\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">B.&nbsp;<u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aram&nbsp;Saroyan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/image_1_175kosuthcubes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"image_1_175kosuthcubes.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/image_1_175kosuthcubes-thumb-300x298-19487.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">C. <u>Joseph Kosuth&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/flynt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"flynt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/flynt-thumb-307x164-19493.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" st=\"\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" st=\"\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" st=\"\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/o:p><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;D.&nbsp;<u>Henry Flynt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/images%20%283%29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"images (3).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/images (3)-thumb-225x225-15347.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;E.&nbsp;<u>John Giorno&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/onkawaradropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"onkawaradropped.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/onkawaradropped-thumb-201x35-19496.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/font><\/o:p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\"> F.&nbsp; <u>On Kawara<\/u><\/font><\/font><\/font><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\"><\/font><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/Jenny-Holzer-Shirt-Protect-Me_786117CD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Jenny-Holzer-Shirt-Protect-Me_786117CD.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/Jenny-Holzer-Shirt-Protect-Me_786117CD-thumb-250x250-19504.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/font><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; G.&nbsp; <u>&nbsp;&nbsp;Jenny Holzer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.56em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"iyokocropped.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/iyokocropped.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"109\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;H.&nbsp;<u>Yoko Ono&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"ligon004_147.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/ligon004_147.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"203\" \/><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I.<u>&nbsp;Glenn Ligon&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"kruger.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/kruger.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"243\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; J.&nbsp;<u>Barbara Kruger&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/Camnitzer Mirror-thumb-255x197-19499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Camnitzer Mirror.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/Camnitzer Mirror-thumb-255x197-19499-thumb-255x197-19500.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;K.&nbsp;<u>Luis Camnitzer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.56em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.56em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.64em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">No one identified all of the authors. Does this mean context is all? True, two of the authors are poets. <\/font><\/font><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.56em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.64em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">True, Kosuth is not known for putting words on plastic cubes.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\">On the other hand, why didn&#8217;t anyone know Henry Flynt, generally considered to be the Fluxus genius or Luis Camnitzer who is currently being honored by a retrospective at El Museo del Barrio?<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'trebuchet ms'; FONT-SIZE: 13px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\">NEVER MISS AN ARTOPIA ESSAY AGAIN!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\">FOR AN AUTOMATIC ARTOPIA ALERT E-MAIL<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><a style=\"OUTLINE-STYLE: none; 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