Surround audience : New Museum Triennial 2015 / edited by Lauren Cornell & Helga Christoffersen.

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New Museum Triennial c2015 New York, N.Y

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc., in association with New Museum, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780847845200
0847845206

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New Museum Triennial 2015

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DDC classification:

709.05 COR 23

LOC classification:

N6496.N4 N498 2015

Summary: "This exhibition and book mark the third edition of the Triennial, a signature initiative of the New Museum devoted to early-career artists from around the world. It provides an important platform for an emergent generation of artists that is shaping the discourse of contemporary art. The Triennial's predictive, rather than retrospective, model embodies the institution's thirty-seven-year commitment to exploring the future of culture through the art of today"--Page 7.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Exhibition Catalogues	709.05 COR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100711317

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"God bless the New Museum's tantalizing triennial." --Jerry Saltz, New York magazine The Generational Triennial is a signature initiative of the New Museum, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to contemporary art. This acclaimed exhibition of work by emerging artists from around the world provides an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture. Featuring over fifty artists from thirty countries, the exhibition extends to performances and site-specific projects throughout New York to explore how artists are engaging diverse audiences through their work.The accompanying catalog includes artist statements and their biographies, as well as substantive essays by curators Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin, along with contributions by other international art and cultural critics.

Published on the occasion of the 2015 New Museum Triennial "Surround audience" held at the New Museum, New York, February 25-May 24, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This exhibition and book mark the third edition of the Triennial, a signature initiative of the New Museum devoted to early-career artists from around the world. It provides an important platform for an emergent generation of artists that is shaping the discourse of contemporary art. The Triennial's predictive, rather than retrospective, model embodies the institution's thirty-seven-year commitment to exploring the future of culture through the art of today"--Page 7.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lauren Cornell is a curator at the New Museum, New York, and former director of Rhizome. Since the debut of his first video work in 2004, Ryan Trecartin has been hailed as one of the most important artists of his generation. This is his first curatorial effort.