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Post–Sharjah Biennial 10: Institutional Grease and Institutional Critique
Ghalya Saadawi
In 1971, a solo exhibition by German artist Hans Haacke, planned to take place at the Guggenheim in New York, was censored due to the artist’s intention to exhibit a work titled Shapolsky et al., Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971 . One of the most discussed works of the 1970s, the piece brings together Haacke’s research on slumlord Harry Shapolsky’s real estate holdings in Manhattan. A series of over 140 photographs of run-down blocks of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2011
Category
Human and Civil Rights
Subjects
Institutional Critique, Biennials, Arab Spring, Money & Finance, Wealth & Inequality, Art Activism