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“The pilgrims wandered among the relics of the honky-tonk hero […] of the lovingly curated shrine to the solitary country star [George Jones]. Just as a Roman Catholic visitor to
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“School Play” (2014), Charles Ray explains, finishes an “accidental trilogy” begun with “The New Beetle” and “Boy with Frog.” “School Play” shows how our boy has grown. No longer naked or
Charles Ray’s “Boy with Frog” (2009) originally stood canal-side in Venice on a spot previously occupied by an old lamp-post where lovers came to kiss for good luck. When Ray
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The exhibition “Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014” is elegant and unsettling. Cannily uncanny, it solicits repeated visits. A good way to approach this work may be to question the intentions of
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Kanye West’s first act as a Doctor of the Fine Arts was to clear the plexiglass podium of a clutter of water-bottles. His first words were, “I’m sorry that was
Tall, slender with short dark hair and dark eyes that stare, Rob Zabrecky enters in a black suit and matching bow tie, as easily taken for an undertaker as a
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The night before our I-Ching-dérive, we had three hours to set up. Six of us, working furiously, pulled together “the chamber of the spectacle” before the close of the library.
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But rather than jump back to ancient antecedents, I want to drift more directly in the biblio-tracks of Situationist Guy Debord. The origin of his technique of urban exploration, the
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The I Ching: The Classic of Changes has its origins in “dragon bones.” In 1899, when the young missionary Richard Wilhelm the future translator of the I Ching was arriving
My mind has a tendency to wander. In conversation and in class, I am prone to digress. So my natural sympathies lie with the Situationist Guy Debord’s dérive. His random
