The Suburban Seventies in ‘Cutting Through the Suburbs’

Cutting Through the Suburbs

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/05/cutting-through-the-suburbs-at-carriage-trade.html#slide_ss_0=1

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.