Critical Writing Index

Art of the Moment, Here to Stay

by Roberta Smith

The New York Times, Feb. 15, 1998, pp. 37,38

This article provides an overview of the steady rise and long reach of video art, as underscored by the Bill Viola exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and other prominent exhibitions that focus on video art.

ITEM 1998.008 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Climbing Around My Room – Lucy Gunning

10 to 16; 60-minute Silence – Gillian Wearing

Dial H-i-s-t-o-r-y – Johan Grimonprez

Nirvana – Mariko Mori

I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much – Pipilotti Rist

Head – Cheryl Donegan

Bill Viola

Buzz Club, Mysteryworld – Reineke Dijkstra

Untitled Fall '95 – Alex Bag

Monster Sketch – Douglas Gordon

Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) – Peter Fischli and David Weiss

Untitled :Clothes – Mark Dickenson

Cremaster – Matthew Barney

D'Est – Chantal Akerman

Pent-up – Sam Taylor-Wood

Snow-White Lucie – Pierre Huyghe

Chalk Confessions – Johnna MacArthur

China – Diana Thater

Jump Fence – Alfred Hernandez