WORK

Warhols Factory of the 1960s, Minimalisms assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers conditions in th e 1970sthese are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the Work Ethic exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispense d with, object...[Read more]