Critics' Pick

Twice Removed has been bestowed the distinguished honor of "Critics' Pick."

As Zachary Cahill so eloquently describes the show, "The gift economy has been thoroughly studied by thinkers as varied as anthropologist Marcel Mauss, poet and scholar Lewis Hyde, and Wired's Chris Anderson. Recognized for his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price (2009), Anderson might consider the pieces in “Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Works” to be “cross-subsidies”: goods that are given away (such as free samples in a supermarket) in hopes that a customer might purchase something else. By appropriating this marketing strategy, many artists have gamed the system of the cross-subsidy as a means of opening up the viewer’s experience of their work in ways not possible through a presentation at a gallery or museum space. As artist and theorist Joseph Grigely has cogently posited in Exhibition Prosthetics (2010), “While exhibitions themselves are temporal––a typical gallery show lasts four weeks––it is the ephemera that outlive and outlast the exhibition.” Take-away works thus constitute a distinct durational relationship between art and its audiences." (Read more)

If that doesn't make you want to see the show, I don't know what will. Maybe a chance to talk with curator Karly Wildenhaus and pick up a copy of her pioneering text on take away artwork?! Alright, I'll see you Sunday from 3 to 5pm!