Charles Harrison writes a scathing critique of Project '74, an international exhibition including video, performance, concerts and films. Harrison identifies Project '74 as an organizational failure: over-budgeting, misrepresenting artists, misuse of technology, etc. as he writes, "The second episode presumably opened once all the artists had gone home, when the public drifted in to stare at insignificant objects, strange films, malfunctioning machines and tatty conglomerations which, perhaps fortunately for the great international community of artists, could surely offer little real insight into the actual conditions of their production." (103)

Lynda Morris clearly identifies the impetus behind Project '74, an ambitious international, well-funded and researched exhibition that sought to align the change from the '60's to the '70's and the direction of the '70's. Morris lists the categories of the exhibition and critiques each one. The categories are as follows: "Time", "Perception", "Formal Systems", "Conceptual Systems", "Video", and "Performance". The final critique of Project '74 is that it was overambitious. (103)