General Idea's Test Pattern : T.V. Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea Pavillion with Luncheon Mats

Accompanying color bar place mats designed by General Idea, Staniszewski's text describes how the work addresses the institutional contexts that frame art. Includes a statement by the artists and biographical notes

The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future? Faculty Symposium, 1990 | Panel I: Looking Ahead/Looking Back: Approaching the Year 2000

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm. The first panel deals with whether or not we are at a fin de l\u27epoque – the conceptual culmination of an era – and if so, what phenomena and consciousness might characterize it, Bright says. In Looking Ahead/Looking Back: Approaching the Year 2000 historian Scott Cook will explore the fin de sitcle concept as an historical phenomenon and discuss its usefulness to our times. English professor Susan Vander Closter will investigate what she calls the state of cultural trauma in contemporary literature and relate it to the recent controversy over obscene art. Art historian and critic Mary Anne Staniszewski will wrap up the first series of presentations by raising questions about the limitations of contemporary visual arts education at the university level and suggesting useful alternatives. A discussion led by Cathy Seigel of the English department will follow.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_thenineties_facultysymposium1990_videos/1000/thumbnail.jp

Alternative Histories : New York Art Spaces, 1960 to 2010

"This groundbreaking book - part exhibition catalogue, part cultural history - chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from an exhibition of the same name at Exit Art, Alternative Histories documents more than 140 alternative spaces, groups, and projects, and the significant contributions these organizations have made to the aesthetic and social fabric of New York City. Alternative art spaces offer sites for experimentation for artists to innovate, perform, and exhibit outside the commercial gallery-and-museum circuit. In New York City, the development of alternative spaces was almost synonymous with the rise of the contemporary art scene. Beginning in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was within a network of alternative sites - including 112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, P.S.1, FOOD, and many others - that the work of young artists like Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, David Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Martin Wong, Jimmie Durham, and dozens of other now familiar names first circulated. Through interviews, photographs, essays, and archival material, Alternative Histories tells the story of such famous venues as Judson Memorial Church, Anthology Film Archives, A.I.R. Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Franklin Furnace, and Eyebeam, as well as many less well-known sites and organizations" -- p. [4] of cover

Design and Art

"Design and Art comprehensively surveys and also looks beyond the phenomenon of 'designerart' that has emerged since the Pop and Minimalist era: cutting-edge, hybrid practices that blur traditional boundaries between art, architecture, graphic and product design" -- p. [4] of cover