The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl

An exhibit exploring vinyl records in a contemporary art context

Seizing on the vinyl record as emblematic of music’s evolution in the 20th century, the forthcoming exhibition “The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl” at the Nasher Museum of Art explores the relationship of sound, artistry and vinyl through the works of 41 artists dating back to 1960. Dario Robleto melted down Billie Holiday vinyl records, turning them into colorful hand-painted buttons in his aptly titled …

MACRO

An impressive restoration of one of Rome's finest contemporary museums

The beginning of June 2010 will be remembered in Rome as the beginning of a new era in contemporary art. With the opening of the brand new MAXXI museum by Zaha Hadid (which CH previewed a few months ago) comes the inauguration of another impressive structure—a new wing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. MACRO opened in 1999 in the former Peroni beer factory, …

A Series of Walks/A Series of Walks (Displaced)

A performance artist reinterprets Google Street View to create an immersive video installation

Google Street View summons panoramic, street-level images of cities and towns at the click of a mouse, wherever its car-mounted cameras can go. Nahanaeli Schelling, a recent graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), confronts Street View’s exhaustive documentation of where we live with her thesis project, “A Series of Walks/A Series of Walks (Displaced).” In her statement, Schelling asks, “What information are we afraid …