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Totally Plugged in

In the "everyday art world," artists are always on the move, disdaining not only art objects but any kind of artistic finality whatsoever, making putative works out of mere schmoozing, and turning t…

John Storrs

From the fickering snippet of old black-and-white film on the wall-mounted video monitor at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, you can tell that John Storrs lived pretty well. The pioneer Ameri…

Eye Level: Overwhelmed

It’s quixotic, not to say risky, to try to derive broad cultural conclusions from a day’s sweep of the galleries in Chelsea—or anyplace where there are more than a half-dozen of them within walking di…

Eye Level: Production Values

Cinephiles who also frequent art galleries might call it the “Michael Cimino Effect,” except that in the art world it proceeds more slowly, and the bottom line isn’t quite so, well, bottom line…

Venice Preview: Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman, the 67-year-old American artist who was selected early last year to be the U.S. artist-representative at the Biennale, has spent his entire career trying to bridge the gap between the re…

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