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In honor of Earth Day, check out the newly digitized 1985 Archives of American Art documentary on sculptor David Barr’s “Four Corners Project.” Barr is seen above examining a model for the project, which was to inscribe a tetrahedron inside a sphere (not just any old sphere - in this case, the earth) and burying one of the actual corners at one of the four carefully mapped geographic locations. He traveled to Easter Island, Greenland, South Africa, and New Guinea to complete the project. You can watch the whole video on youtube through the link below. For more, see the smithsonianavarchivists post on this video today.

Taken from Tate Modern

The innovative audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts was established by Bill Furlong in 1973. Edited and produced by Furlong, it comprises an integral element of his art practice.

On the occasion of Sturtevant: Double Trouble, the first comprehensive survey in America of the late artist’s 50-year career, the exhibition’s curator and MOCA’s director introduce a challenging and influential body of work, one that has been largely overlooked in the history of postwar American art.

Named for her lamentation of “the perverse simultaneous double trouble of being ahead and being behind,” the retrospective presents over forty works that attest to Sturtevant’s profound, career-long commitment to the investigation of art history, as it happened in real time. By controversially “repeating” the work of artists from Andy Warhol to Felix Gonzales-Torres, Sturtevant broke many taboos in the art world, and ultimately revealed a prescient understanding of visual culture.

MOCA Director Philippe Vergne had known Sturtevant for more than twenty years, and was among the enigmatic artist’s most ardent supporters in the United States. “She was not waiting for history to capture and rubber stamp an artist.… She had this immediate ability to capture the most important aesthetic breakthroughs of her time.”