In a creative and thoughtful manner, this exhibition contributes to the diverse, ongoing discussions concerning national identity. Framed by the iconography of the stars and stripes , Old Glory draws together the work of more than 50 artists. The range of approaches extend from being thoughtful or celebratory of the emblematic form of Old Glory , to including artists who use the symbolic elements of the flag to present troubling or provocative imagery. The exhibition surveys material from 1950s through to the early 1990 s, and is carefully selected to represent the variety of viewpoints and esthetic forms that can invoke or suggest the pluralistic, frequently discordant cultural and political life of the late 20th century in the U.S.A. Over 65 illustrations.

Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art: Exhibition Catalog

David Rubin

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

Comfort accompanies an exhibition of work by eight of today's most engaging international artists: Franz Ackermann, Peter Land, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider and Andrea Zittel. Through a variety of media and styles ranging from painting, photography and video to installation, furniture design and architecture, this crop of young artists from around the world offers a range of possibilities for making sense of the often impersonal and increasingly fragmented terrain of the postmodern world. The artists documented here all concern themselves with the difficult project of cognitive mapping--the individual and social attempt to face up to an increasingly complex and seemingly unknowable reality. In addition to a critical essay by architecture historian Michael Sorkin--addressing the ever-changing physicality of the contemporary world and its impact on the human psyche--Comfort also features responses by each artist to the question of what the concept of comfort means to them.

Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

This book examines the shared preoccupations of five celebrated female artists from around the world, whose work mines the fertile fields of politics, patriarchy, religion and culture: Ghada Amer, Nicole Eisenman, Shahzia Sikander, Lin Tianmiao and Fatimah Tuggar.

Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics

Amer, Ghada

Marcoci, Roxana

Chambers, Kristin

Eisenman, Nicole

Tuggar, Fatimah

Tianmiao, Lin

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This catalogue documents a body of work created by Hammond following a unique collaboration with the renowned poet John Ashbery. In 1993, Hammond commissioned Ashbery to create a set of unique titles that would act as catalysts for her recombinative paintings. Ashbery provided 44 such titles that employ his characteristically eclectic use of language, such as Confessions of a Fop, A Parliament of Refrigerator Magnets, Freezer Burn, and others. Since 1993, these titles have been the initial source of Hammond's creative process. The 60 paintings created to date in this series are, like all of her work, produced from a controlled iconographic pool of 276 pictorial representations, drawn from such texts as 19th-century technical manuals, old children's books, pornographic comics, and the like. The relationships between titles and paintings range from obscure to playfully evident, yet all derive from the lively intersection between language and image.

Ashbery Collaboration, The

Ashbery, John.

Shaffner, Ingrid

Hammond, Jane

Individual Artists

Olivier Herring: Sleepless Nights

Herring, Oliver

Chambers, Kristin (Curated by)

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