Le Désert comme scène de l’avoir lieu : Robert Smithson et Noah Purifoy by Antonia Rigaud

“…This article discusses two iconic desert interventions : Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, in order to bring forward the art history debates of the time, moving away from formalist criticism towards more socio-political criticism. By confronting the way these two artists conceive of sculpture in the desert, this article seeks to cross perspectives and to explore what a contextual reading of Purifoy’s work can bring to our reading of Smithson’s and, conversely, how a formalist criticism of Smithson’s art can help bring Purifoy away from the marginal space he has too long been assigned.…”
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Local Culture: Curation as an Ethnographic Process in the Contemporary Cuban Art Scene by Celia Irina González

“…In concrete terms, the study centres on an exhibition called Cultura Autóctona, with the objective of understanding the contemporary Cuban art scene and its repercussions for the production of practices involved in its politically critical social context. The design of the exhibition and curation process has contributed elements to the current debate within visual anthropology: understanding of the image as a process of inter-relation, more than of description.…”
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Transmedial presence of verbal texts in architecture and public space. Between informativity and emotivity by Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

“…They range from informational and explanatory, to devotional, to political–critical, to – in the end – poetic, experimental, creative, funny, and ironical. …”
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