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Peter Plagens

Peter Plagens is an artist and critic whose last book was Bruce Nauman: The True Artist (Phaidon).

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Gordon Matta-Clark

'Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect' at the Bronx Museum of Art

Peter Plagens
December 1, 2017
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On view through April 8, a new exhibition makes a case for Matta- Clark’s artistic and social importance.


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Ai Weiwei Explores Surveillance

Ai Weiwei Explores Surveillance with 'Hansel & Gretel' at the Park Avenue Armory

New York City
Peter Plagens
July 1, 2017
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The chinese artist-activist collaborated with Pritzker Prize–winning architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron on the installation.


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500 Capp Street

Close up: David Ireland's 500 Capp Street Project by Architectural Resources Groups and Jensen Architects

San Francisco
Peter Plagens
February 1, 2016
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A surgical restoration preserves an eccentric artist's singular home in San Francisco.


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Whitney Museum

Close-Up: The Art in the Whitney Museum Shines in its New Home

Peter Plagens
May 16, 2015
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On the far west end of a wall on the sixth floor of the new Whitney Museum of American Art hangs Frank Stella’s great and influential, black proto-Minimalist painting Die Fahne hoch! (1959).
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The Artist

Peter Plagens
August 16, 2014
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August 2014 Discipline Problem: The relationship between art and architecture in recent decades has ranged from sympathetic complicity to outright hostility. Photo courtesy of the Artist and Meessen De Clercq, Bruxelles Unbuilt 5'Magn's Th. S Bl'ndal Residence, S'lvellir 18, 1925' Architect: Einar Erlendsson, 2012. The artistGordon Matta-Clark's most famous instance of what he called “anarchitecture” amounted to cutting through an abandoned house, as one would a cake, and then tilting the two halves slightly so as to reveal a slim vertical “V” of empty space between them. However physically destructive his actions toward the built environment might have appeared, it
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Discipline Problem, architecture

Discipline Problem

The relationship between art and architecture in recent decades has ranged from sympathetic complicity to outright hostility.
Peter Plagens
August 16, 2014
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For decades, Dan Graham has created pavilions that play with viewers’ perceptions of space. His Hedge Two-Way Mirror Walkabout, 2014, a collaboration with the Swiss landscape architect Günther Vogt, is installed on the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art through November 2.


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Plays Well with Others

Peter Plagens
November 15, 2012
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Report card: Zaha Hadid's MAXXI turns out to be a good place to see art. There's a giant, white, habitable sculpture sitting in the midst of Rome's nondescript Flaminio district just north of the city center. Its exterior juxtaposes sinuous curves and sharply angled planes, and its interior flows in smooth, serpentine capaciousness. It's Zaha Hadid's National Museum of XXI Century Arts (better known as MAXXI), and doubtless it's a work of art itself. But museums aren't supposed to be stand-alone masterpieces. They're supposed to display and enhance other works of art to visual and contextual advantage. The 228,000-square-foot MAXXI
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