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Anne Collier
Published in Artforum, April 2010. For additional images and information about the exhibition, click here. Anne Collier is an exceedingly patient artist, revisiting key themes again and again to refine the delicate balance between what she has termed her “forensic aesthetics” and her photographs’ “psychological or emotive” content. This exhibition, her first full-scale one-person show [...]
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A New Literary History of America
Last night I finally spotted Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors’s A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press) on bookstore shelves. I’ve been curious about the anthology since the dust jacket for Marcus’s last book, The Shape of Things to Come, mentioned he was at work on it. Just how broadly would Marcus and [...]
Book review: Christian Marclay
Published in Print, July/August 2007. For more than 20 years, Christian Marclay has created work that straddles the worlds of visual art and music, and has received increasing recognition from cognoscenti in both disciplines; this spring, a survey of his visual art premiered at the Musée de la Musique in Paris. Like an off-kilter synesthete, [...]
John Stezaker
Published on Artforum.com on February 8, 2006. For more information about the exhibition, click here; to see the review in context, click here. One could easily recommend any of the small, sharply focused exhibitions now on view at White Columns; my favorite is John Stezaker’s show in one of the gallery’s “White Rooms.” Despite a [...]
