This talk will survey LeWitt’s photographic responses to Manhattan that assert community over space as an abstract, speculative commodity. As artworks, these are fragmented, spatially and conceptually dispersed objects, not quite authorized as art. LeWitt’s Manhattan works are productively examined in conjunction with responses to Manhattan real estate by his contemporary, Hans Haacke, as well as the work of later artists such as Zoe Leonard who have expanded photo-conceptualism to engage the city’s fragile, transitional social and economic systems.
Free and open to the public.
Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.