Museums will eat your lunch

Directed by Martha Rosler

In this silent video, still images of stores and residential buildings in New York City appear within a cutout template, based on the “giftbox heap” formed by the New Museum silhouette. As these shiny storefronts, dwellings, and official documents of occupancy of the new Bowery in the 21st Century go by, set phrases relating to the merits and demerits of museums roll desultorily down from above to below.