ART THEORY AND PRACTICE

Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

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faculty

Pamela Bannos
Jeanne Dunning
Kelly Kaczynski
Judy Ledgerwood
Marlena Novak
Robert A. Pruitt
Michael Rakowitz
Steve Reinke
Lane Relyea

\ 		Michael Rakowitz
selected portfolio


The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series), 2007| middle eastern packaging and newspapers, glue | variable dimensions | installation view of An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series), 2007, detail | middle eastern packaging and newspapers, glue | variable dimensions | installation view of Sharjah Biennial 8: Still Life-Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series), 2007, detail | middle eastern packaging and newspapers, glue | variable dimensions | installation view of Sharjah Biennial 8: Still Life-Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

 

Return (Brooklyn), 2006 | Davisons & Co. import/export company, 529 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY | image of storefront

Davisons and Co Store Log

Return (Brooklyn), 2006 | Davisons & Co. import/export company, 529 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY | image of store interior

Return (Brooklyn), 2006 | Davisons & Co. import/export company 529 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY | image of store interior

Minaret, 2001, February 20, 2001 | performance on Clocktower Gallery rooftop at five designated times of prayer

Bill Stone's paraSITE shelter, 1998, Cambridge/Boston, MA | plastic bags,
polyethylene tubing, hooks, tape

Michael McGee's paraSITE shelter, 2000, 26th Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan | plastic bags, polyethylene tubing, hooks, tape

 

Images courtesy of the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects

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Associate Professor
office: 3-355 Kresge
m-rakowitz@northwestern.edu