In the 40-minute version at the Met, Ms. Hearn, chatting with clients and friends and downing quick meals, is the star and the piece itself has become a document of art-world history since her death in 2000.
In 1968, in a declaration of principles that has become a founding document of Conceptual art (a category that Mr. Weiner, as you might expect, views with great suspicion), he wrote: "1.
She says the showcase is useful both as a cultural document -- "This is a way to track the bounty of the whole field and to ask some questions about what's happening in poetry today" -- and as a way for poets to "participate in being part of the document of their art in our time".
The catch here, however, is that the only documented work of art linked directly to the name Poyet is one battered leaf, owned by the Philadelphia Free Library and exhibited in the show.
He taught art at Hunter College (1951 58, 1971 72), directed the publication of the series "The Documents of Modern Art" (1944 52), and wrote numerous essays on art and aesthetics.
The Cadillacs were taking 25 journalists to a Surrey woodland clearing, "a secret destination where they will be able to witness and document the amending of art history".
([Jean] Hans Arp, On My Way, Documents of Modern Art, vol. 6, p. 123, George Wittenborn, Inc., New York, 1948).
The film is one of the great documents of the art form, which it both honors and distorts, exalts and diminishes and even, at times, unintentionally insults.
Yet it is also brutal, the rapist, the murderer and death-dealing giants are also its offspring" (quoted in Garola Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture, Documents of Modern Art, vol. 12, p. 123, George Wittenborn, Inc., New York, 1955).
"All of them are excellent, and the best of them document the art of a major musician," he wrote.
Paul, who has worked for his brother since 1973, photographs and documents every piece of art Ruscha makes.
