{"id":851,"date":"2012-07-18T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/?p=851"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:02:43","slug":"documenta-13-a-brief-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/documenta-13-a-brief-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenta 13: A Brief Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every five years the focus of the art world shifts to Kassel, Germany for Documenta, a gigantic show where the world&#8217;s leading contemporary artists \u00a0exhibit project specific artworks. \u00a0Critic Jerry Saltz writes that &#8220;Documenta 13 comes tantalizingly close to realizing one of its enticing goals: rethinking how we define art altogether, opening it up exponentially. Indeed, here and there, in glimpses, we get what I call Post Art&#8230;things that aren\u2019t artworks so much as they are about the drive to make things that, like art, embed imagination in material and grasp that creativity is a cosmic force. &#8221; \u00a0Here&#8217;s a brief tour of the exhibition. What do you think of the notion of post art (the idea that anything can be art) and what&#8217;s your favorite work in the show?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yX4XIiikPgw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Every five years the focus of the art world shifts to Kassel, Germany for Documenta, a gigantic show where the world&#8217;s leading contemporary artists \u00a0exhibit project specific artworks. \u00a0Critic Jerry Saltz writes that &#8220;Documenta 13 comes tantalizingly close to realizing one of its enticing goals: rethinking how we define art altogether, opening it up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[93],"tags":[142,145,146,144,143],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-arts-break","tag-documenta","tag-germany","tag-jerry-saltz","tag-kassel","tag-post-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/a_560x375.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wWI3-dJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}