NEW YORK — The small Bronx Museum of the Arts regularly punches above its weight. It is doing so again with “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect,” a streamlined exhibition of the work of this ...

There is something both elegiac and death-defying about Gordon Matta-Clark’s work. The short-lived Matta-Clark (1943–1978) is most famous for cutting huge sections out of decrepit buildings, graceful ...

Have you ever imagined taking a sledgehammer to a building, peeling back the layers to see what’s really under there, exposing what works and what doesn’t? Gordon Matta-Clark did, slicing with abandon ...

MattaClark was invited to create Conical Intersect for the Paris Biennale in 1975 For this piece he cut a giant conical shape into two adjacent seventeenthcentury buildings designated for demolition ...

In 1976, when Gordon Matta-Clark shot out the windows of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, he wasn’t making a performative aesthetic gesture — he was engaging in an act of ...

In 1975, Gordon Matta-Clark, dangling from a beam on a scrap of plywood sheeting, used an acetylene torch to cut an airplane-size crescent in the steel wall of an abandoned warehouse on New York’s ...

I met Gordon MattaClark at the 1975 Paris Biennale He was looking for a place to make a piece I led him to a building across the street from my place on rue Beaubourg that I had been taking photos of ...