21st Century

0009 Anne Ring Petersen, Attention and Distraction: On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art

This article examines the interrelationship between attention and distraction in the reception of video installation art, a genre which is commonly associated with "immersion" and an intensified feeling of presence. This tends to veil the fact that [...]

0010 Martin A. Berger, Fixing Images: Civil Rights Photography and the Struggle Over Representation

"Fixing Images" argues that the iconic photographs of civil rights played a key role in limiting the racial reforms of the 1960s. The famous photographs of [...]

0017 Nissim Gal, Landscape Painting. Rewriting Painting in the Postmedium Condition

Is landscape painting still relevant today? To answer this question the article examines the work of the contemporary artist Yehudit Sasportas whose unique kind of written-drawn landscape painting may be characterized as "painting under erasure" [...]

0024 Katarzyna Jagodzińska, A Museum Open to the Street (English Version)

Museums, galleries and centres of art – of contemporary art in particular – go out into the space of the street to encourage passers-by to step inside. This mutual permeation and observation of the two worlds [...]

0025 Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Muzeum otwarte na ulicę (Polish Version)

Muzea, galerie i centra sztuki, zwłaszcza współczesnej, wychodzą w przestrzeń ulicy, by zachęcić przechodnia do wejścia. To Przenikanie się dwóch światów [...]

0032 Maria Hussakowska-Szyszko, Labyrinth – fragments. Robert Morris and his installation for ms² Łódź 2010

The installation by Robert Morris called Labyrinth, accompanying his monographic exhibition at the Museum of Art in Łódź, was one of his numerous works based on this theme. Besides the labyrinth itself [...]