Access Today Against Ambience Conceived By Seth Kim-Cohen Compiled As EText

Against Ambience diagnosesin order to curethe art worlds recent turn toward ambience, Over the course of three short monthsJune to September,the four most prestigious museums in New York indulged the ambience of sound and light: James Turrell at the Guggenheim, Soundings at MoMA, Robert Irwin at the Whitney, and Janet Cardiff at the Met.
In addition, two notable shows at smaller galleries indicate that this is not simply a majordonor movement, Collectively, these shows constitute a proposal about what we want from art in, Against Ambience argues for an art that acknowledges its own methods and intentions its own position in the structures of cultural power and persuasion.
Rather than the warm glow of light or the soothing wash of sound, Against Ambience proposes an art of cracks, crevices, disruptions, and deconstructions.
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