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...Mel Bochner came to New York as a 24-year-old conceptual artist in 1964 at a time when virtually no galleries were seriously exhibiting photography as art. Photography was an overlooked medium in its commercial relationship to the art world, so much so that the young Bochner purchased a Walker Evans photograph from a 1965 exhibition for the now preposterously meager sum of $100. In this art scene which did not yet value photography, Bochner produced a series of innovative photographs that proved the medium’s potential. His seminal works would later help to elevate the status...
...opening of his current show at the Sackler, Mel Bochner: Photographs 1966-1969, curator Scott Rothkopf engaged the artist in a witty dialogue that illuminated the conceptual motivation of his photographs. Bochner is an influential and ground-breaking figure in the post-minimal and conceptual art movements. Although known more for his paintings, installations and drawings, Bochner’s photography offers an unusual insight into the process and development of the artist’s conceptual pursuit. Significantly, Bochner did not actually take and develop the photographs himself; rather he constructed and contrived the circumstances for their professional execution...
...Mel Bochner: Photographs...
...students who, when I went to art school, couldn’t draw, became photographers,” quipped Mel Bochner, whose photographs made up the exhibit, currently on display at the Sackler Museum. “Photography was seen as a lower form...
That may be about to change. Goodman has landed the hottest part on Broadway: from March 19 he will replace Nathan Lane as the crooked impresario Max Bialystock in the wildly successful revival of Mel Brooks' The Producers - where seats are scarce despite a record top price of $100 and broker prices reaching $480. The musical is due to hit London in 2003. So the casting of this Broadway almost-newcomer (he worked there in 1998 in the long-running Art) is big news...