ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/25/2024 LIVE from NYPL presents Michael Stipe launching 'Even the birds gave pause'DATE 6/13/2024 ICP presents Eugene Richards on 'Remembrance Garden'DATE 6/8/2024 "Next-level otherness" in Pride Month staff pick 'Nick Cave: Forothermore'DATE 6/6/2024 Celebratory and transgressive, 'John Waters: Pope of Trash' is a Pride Month Staff PickDATE 6/3/2024 In Nan Goldin's 'The Other Side,' you are who you pretend to beDATE 6/2/2024 Green-Wood Cemetery presents Eugene Richards launching 'Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery'DATE 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/28/2024 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love,' on view at The BroadDATE 5/24/2024 Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with Garry Winogrand's intimate, flashing mirror of AmericaDATE 5/24/2024 Beautifully illustrated essays on Arab ModernistsDATE 5/19/2024 Of bodies and knowing, in 'Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time'DATE 5/17/2024 192 Books presents Robert Storr and Lloyd Wise launching Heni 'Focal Points' seriesDATE 5/17/2024 Lee Quiñones signing at Perrotin Store New York | EXCERPTS & ESSAYSMING LIN | DATE 7/24/2011Documenta Notebooks: Lawrence Weiner"IF IN FACT THERE IS A CONTEXT..." begins Lawrence Weiner, rather skeptically, in his contribution to Hatje Cantz and Documenta's series, 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts. Weiner, a formative figure of the conceptual art movement, is known for his bold typographic works displayed as wall installations. His very literal phrases—for example the famous work "A 36" X 36" REMOVAL TO THE LATHING OR SUPPORT WALL OF PLASTER OR WALL-BOARD FROM A WALL"—lead the viewer to question whether the work of art is the object or action described or the text itself. Like Joseph Kosuth's 1965 "One and Three Chairs" piece, which features a chair, a photograph of the same chair and a copy of the dictionary definition of the word "chair," Weiner's work invites ambiguity in order to interrogate themes such as what an original work of art consists of and how meaning is made. |