Standing as a literal centrepiece to an exhibition of video art at Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum are two works by perhaps the earliest adopters of the medium: Nam June Paik and Andy Warhol. The pieces are installed in the Zaha Hadid-designed central landing of the museum, “a connecting point almost like the centre of a wheel” from which all the other galleries shoot off, says the show’s curator Caitlín Doherty. Both date to 1965, and so also serve as the chronological launching point for the exhibition, Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965-2015 (until 15 February 2016) one of the last to be conceived by the museum’s late director Michael Rush, who was an expert in video art. The show travels to the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in spring 2016.
