Work Ethic

Work Ethic reproduces all the diverse material - Bruce Nauman videotapes to Roxy Paine’s painting machine - in the Baltimore exhibition and provides insightful discussion of each piece’s history, structure and significance. Four essays introduce topics, like utopian fantasies of pleasurable work, that are of general relevance to setting the material into a postindustrial context. Throughout this catalogue, there is as well a lively dialogue on the museum’s relationship to art that questions the rules of both the workplace and the art world.