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Walker Show Subverts Racial Stereotypes

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such


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Breaking the Mold

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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Portrait of a Cubist as a Young Man

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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Krauss and the Art of Cultural Controversy

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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Seeing The Big Picture

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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The Greatest Show on Earth

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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Defining the Politics of Perception

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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


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MFA Shows More Than Just a Pretty Face

By Scott Rothkopf  • 

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

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