I sure got my wish with “Signals: How Video Transformed the World,” which closes this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art — and which, screen for screen, hour for hour, stands proud as the most perplexing exhibition of the year.
Maybe a dozen times since its opening in March I have ascended to MoMA’s top floor for this ambitious, irregular exhibition of video art, the largest this museum has ever put on.
Given the recent subtropical weather here in New York, this final weekend might be ideal for wrestling with “Signals” in MoMA’s climate-controlled galleries.
“Signals,” drawn from the museum’s collection by the curators Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo, is decidedly not a history of video art.
(Fair enough: Nauman had a major retrospective in these same galleries in 2018, and Jonas has one coming up next year.)
Persons:
bafflement, ”, Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo, Bruce Nauman, Joan Jonas, Nauman, Jonas, Nam, Paik, Orwell
Organizations:
“, Museum of Modern, I’ve, New
Locations:
New York, Paris