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By Daniel Buren Andrea Fraser HOW TO PROVIDE AN ARTISTIC SERVICE: AN INTRODUCTION From: Lucitania, 1991 Andrea Fraser NOTES ON THE MUSEUM'S PUBLICITY From: Parkett 66 - 2003 DANIEL BUREN: FROM PAINTING TO ARCHITECTURE By Anne Rorimer From: InterReview, 2004 MICHAEL ASHER: CONTEXT AS CONTENT By Anne Rorimer From: Los Angeles Times , 2002 BRIEF ARTICLE ON MICHAEL ASHER'S PROJECT WITH FAIRFAX HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART From: InterReview, 2004 AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL ASHER By Ginger Wolfe From: ArtPress, 1995 FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES ETRE UN ESPION Interview by Robert Storr From: Museum-L, 2005 ARTIFACTS VERSUS PROPS (a discussion thread, Jan 12 - Jan 20, 2005) From: Dia Art Foundation JOSEPH BEUYS: 7000 OAKS By Lynne Cooke From: Dia Art Foundation LAWRENCE WEINER By Lynne Cooke From: Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture WILLIAM WEGMAN'S PSYCHIC VAUDEVILLE By Craig Owens From: Part Object Part Sculpture LAUGHTER [on Marcel Broodthaers and Piero Manzoni] By Rachel Haidu KARIN SANDER, some works; and AN INTERVIEW By Harald Welzer TOWARDS A TENDER SOCIETY OF THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS By Harrell Fletcher An interview with Harrell Fletcher: MERGING ART, FUNCTIONALITY, AND EDUCATION Interview by Nic Paget-Clarke I BEEN WANTING TO GO HOME By Harrell Fletcher From: Dia Art Foundation ALIGHIERO BOETTIi & FRÉDÉRIC BRULY BOUABRBÉ: WORLDS ENVISIONED By Lynne Cooke ( For more complete information on this Dia exhibition click HERE ) An interview with Nicolas Bourriaud: PUBLIC RELATIONS Interview by Bennett Simpson From: BOMB Magazine, August 2003 MARINA ABRAMOVIC BY LAURIE ANDERSON An interview WHO'S IN CONTROL? ISSUES IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA ART By Sarah Drury From: The Society of Control: The Academy and the Corporate Public SYMBOLIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT OR WHAT TO DO WITH THE GOOD, THE TRUE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL By Hans Haacke From: Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri Empire Part Three — Passages of Production CHAPTER 3.5: MIXED CONSTITUTION SOME ARTISTS Some information on KARIN SANDER Some information on ANDREA ZITTEL Some information on RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA Some information on HARRELL FLETCHER Some information on LEE MINGWEI SOME TEXTS AVAILABLE ONLINE From: Andrea Fraser FOUR TEXTS From: Lilian Tone TEXTS ON ARTISTS From: Lynne Cooke TEXTS ON ARTISTS
