December 12, 2007

Art and Language

From Barbara Kruger's aggressive slogans to Xu Bing's delicate pictograms, contemporary text art exposes and subverts everyday language. We discuss the latest generation of text artists, who employ rock posters, comic books, and bubble letters for their cultural criticism, and profile up-and-coming conceptualist Adam Pendleton. Lawrence Weiner talks to us about his seminal text pieces, now on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and we review the catalogue for Richard Prince's current retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Of the latest exhibitions, we spotlight Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's interactive installations in Miami, as well as Cory Arcangel's retro projections in London and Richard Wilson's deconstructed machines in Bergamo.