Jonah Westerman

'Sweet Violence,' a retrospective of work by Croatian artist and political provocateur Sanja Iveković, is the latest and best outcome of New York's 'Ostalgia' craze:

Artists of the Former East have been something of a curatorial obsession in recent years. This show is the best to date.

Bio: Jonah Westerman is an art historian based in New York. He writes about performance and mediation and is currently at work on a dissertation about European performance art after 1989 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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'Sweet Violence,' a retrospective of work by Croatian artist and political provocateur Sanja Iveković, is the latest and best outcome of New York's 'Ostalgia' craze

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Artists of the Former East have been something of a curatorial obsession in recent years. Since Marina Abramovic’s landmark MoMA retrospective in March of last year, “The Artist is Present,” there have been an increasing number of shows that simultaneously explore conditions of life under and after communism as well as performance’s position within contemporary art practice. "Sweet Violence" is the best to date. More

Posted on December 22nd, 2011 2:56pm