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Scott Rothkopf

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Breaking the Mold

Student art shows in the Carpenter Center used to feel like they had been organized by an egalitarian elementary school


Swiss Artists Fischli and Weiss Juggle Sarcasm, Sincerity at the ICA

If Peter Fischli and David Weiss hadn't become artists, they might have become comedians. Or critics. Or seventh-grade science teachers.


Portrait of a Cubist as a Young Man

Those who find it difficult to subtract four-digit numbers may wish to bring a calculator, or at least scratch paper,


Krauss and the Art of Cultural Controversy

Rosalind Krauss is one of the most influential and outspoken historians of modern art. After receiving her Ph.D. in Fine


Seeing The Big Picture

It would be easy to argue that Roy Lichtenstein has never made an original image. Rather he has made images


The Greatest Show on Earth

NEW YORK--It may be impossible to finger the zeitgeist of contemporary art, but lucky for us the Whitney Museum would


Defining the Politics of Perception

Visitors to Clido Meireles' first North American retrospective bend iron with their eyes. In Meireles' exhibition at the Boston Institute


MFA Shows More Than Just a Pretty Face

Unlike the Herb Ritts show, the "Face and Figure" exhibition down-stairs at the Museum of Fine Arts contains only one