The Suburban Seventies in ‘Cutting Through the Suburbs’

The art in “Cutting Through the Suburbs” was made in response to consumerist tensions and the housing crisis of the nineteen-seventies. Though much of the exhibition is earnest in tone, there’s also humor in the work. The videos in particular have a looseness that buoys their provocative ambitions, a renegade spirit that still feels bracing, forty years on.