{"id":56629,"date":"2017-09-11T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?p=56629"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:13:08","slug":"tom-sachs","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2017\/tom-sachs\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Artist: Tom Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">September 11, 2017<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Visiting Artist:&nbsp;Tom Sachs<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 pm<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Sachs is an interdisciplinary artist known for his intricate, hand-built reconstructions of American cultural detritus. Utilitarian objects, luxury goods, artifacts from the NASA space program are combined and reimagined using makeshift materials, laboriously assembled by hand. Simultaneously playful and critical, Sachs\u2019 work looks closely at consumerism and capitalist iconography to create tensions between high and low culture, the handmade and the mass-produced, labor and leisure, and the venerated and the overlooked. &nbsp;Sachs has exhibited internationally, and has work in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/creative-research\/learn\/lectures\/\">Contemporary Perspectives Lectures Series.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cfa\/files\/2017\/10\/SVA_Sachs-packet-web.pdf\">Learn more about the artist.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Artist:&nbsp;Tom Sachs Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 pm Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave. Tom Sachs is an interdisciplinary artist known for his intricate, hand-built reconstructions of American cultural detritus. Utilitarian objects, luxury goods, artifacts from the NASA space program are combined and reimagined using makeshift materials, laboriously assembled by hand. 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