Art in America, June 1st, 2000
This spring, electronic-media pioneer and amiable provocateur Nam June Paik filled the Guggenheim with a lifetime's work. The museum pulsed, flashed, splashed, hummed and rocked.
Passing through the revolving door of the Guggenheim Museum into "The Worlds of Nam June Paik," museum-goers were transported into a darkened and charged space very different from the bright spiral of ramps for which the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building is known. In the crepuscular lobby, a broad circle of monitors laid on their backs on the floor blinked up at a laser show spiraling across a tentlike scrim str...
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