Purity and Danger in Net Art

by Diane Greco

Originally published on January 4, 2002

Like a lot of contemporary art, “Sex/Anthrax” aims to unsettle the viewer’s
complacency, in this case about sexuality, infection by anthrax,
and the spectre of uncontrollability that these things conjure up.

Future Boston

reviewed by Diane Greco

Originally published on September 1, 2001

For the last month, I’ve been practicing the phrase, “I used to live in Boston,” but it still feels strange to say it. In two weeks, I’ll put all my stuff in a truck and head south to New York. I’m prepared, but after eight and a half years, leaving this city isn’t going to [...]

The Art of Windows

by Diane Greco

Originally published on July 1, 2001

My mother, a painter, once sketched me an eight-pane window looking out on a garden. Just above her signature, she inscribed a dedication along with a tag-line: “We get to do the windows.” The sketch, which hung on my bedroom wall beside my actual window throughout my adolescence, was a feminist inside joke and an [...]

Out-of-Print: The Vanishing of a Category

by Diane Greco

Originally published on October 1, 2000

What does it mean for a book to be “out-of-print” in a universe composed less of ink on paper than of bits in motion?