Gordon Matta-Clark did, slicing with abandon into warehouses and vacant buildings both in Europe and the United States. His cuts on buildings in the 1970s were to become the talk of the art world ...

This well-deserved retrospective celebrates the ideas and brazen social agenda behind Matta-Clark’s extreme exploits. Since most of the late American artist’s work has been demolished ...

Taking his 1970s series of Bronx “cuts” as a point of departure and entry into his engaged exploration of the city as a field of action, Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect examines the artist’s ...

And last October, downtown’s Community Board 2 unanimously approved the Whitney Museum’s proposal for a public artwork by David Hammons in homage to Matta-Clark’s Day’s End, which Matta ...

Gordon Matta-Clark did. The output from his nine-year career was not large -- the New York artist died young, from pancreatic cancer in the summer of 1978, barely a month after turning 35 -- but ...

He was just 35. This is the stuff of which legends are made, and so “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect” has a near-mythic air. The trim, punchy display of the artist’s gleefully radical ...

We don’t know how to fix them when they fall apart. In 1972, artist Gordon Matta-Clark began entering abandoned apartment buildings in the South Bronx and cutting holes in the floors.

For about five years prior to the event, Matta-Clark had been going into derelict buildings and making cuts that transformed the structures into works of art that implicitly criticized the social ...

In 1974, artist Gordon Matta-Clark set to work on a performance art piece. He took his chainsaw to an abandoned house in New Jersey and carefully, deliberately, cut the home down the middle. Once that ...

Taking his 1970s series of Bronx "cuts" as a point of departure and entry into his engaged exploration of the city as a field of action, Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect is the artist's first ...