fractured witness
By david cohen

Martha Rosler Off the Shelf: War and Empire 2008 Digital Print, 28 by 22 inches Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash	NEXT SLIDE
But Rosler’s unsubtle equation of power and fashion seems, in its way, as self-indulgent on the artist’s part as that of the decadent America of her indignation.  Equally as heavy handed as the luxury=violence visual rhetoric in Rosler is the self-congratulatory parade of highbrow, politically right-on reading materials that forms the theory-as-décor finale of this exhibition

 

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Exhibitions under review

Susanna Coffey: SInce 2001
at the New York Studio School
November 6 to December 20, 2008

Martha Rosler: Great Powers
at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
September 6 to October 11, 2008

Eyal Danieli: in the mood for love
at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
October 10 to November 8, 2008

Alexey Kallima: Chechen Women's Team of Parachute Jumping and its Virtual Fans
at Lehmann Maupin
September 4 to October 18, 2008