Question

This artist cut up the façade of a condemned house in Niagara Falls’s Love Canal neighborhood before moving the rest to its Artpark in the work Bingo. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist who filmed himself cutting a New Jersey house in half in the work Splitting. This “anarchitect” cut a cone-shaped hole through two Parisian townhouses in the work Conical Intersect.
ANSWER: Gordon Matta-Clark
[10e] For Conical Intersect, Matta-Clark cut two townhouses that were to be demolished to make room for this art museum. The exterior of this Parisian modern art museum is lined with color-coded pipes.
ANSWER: Centre Pompidou [or Pompidou Center; or Centre Georges Pompidou]
[10m] Matta-Clark's theory of “anarchitecture” was influenced by this artist’s theories of entropy. This land artist, whom Matta-Clark met at Cornell’s “Earth Art” exhibition, created Partially Buried Woodshed at Kent State.
ANSWER: Robert Smithson
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