Throughout the show we are taken on a journey through the predominant narrative of 1960s art history, as told by the institution that has dictated modern art as we know it.

The waterfalls promise to be impressive and quite the sensation, but they will also reveal Eliasson’s main strength – the skill to turn a generous gesture into a subjective experience, which even in a city of millions can be as personal as it will be communal.

A  review from 2006 retrieved for his new show at Cheim & Read

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Avenue) Long Island City, NY 11101 718.784.2084 February 26, 2006 – May 29, 2006 Wolfgang Tillmans’s exhibition at PS1, entitled Freedom From The Known, features a new series of large scale abstract photographs. Some are unique while others are based on the artist’s previous imagery. This is … Continued

PS1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave Long Island City, NY 11101 718 784 2084 March 13 to September 26, 2005 “Greater New York” is a survey exhibition mounted periodically by PS1 to give an overview of exciting work done recently in or near New York by artists who are not household … Continued

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY September 23, 2004 to January 10, 2005 Manny Farber grew bored with non-objective painting (“I was just repeating myself”). Perhaps he grew tired of suppressing or transforming signs of empirical reality. It is certainly not obvious to strangers standing before the early work what … Continued

MoMA QNS 33 Street at Queens Blvd. Long Island City, Queens P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave Long Island City, Queens March 12-June 7, 2004 Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was a Jack of all trades, master of none. He is known as the artist who “not only erased the line between art and life but … Continued

PS1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave in Long Island City, New York January 22 – May 1, 2004 I went to see the Lee Lozano show at P.S. 1 with a friend of mine who used to be her pot dealer and (briefly) her lover. In the reception area there is … Continued