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...instructions for the creation of a painting, not as an art object itself. Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg's "Life with Pop," in which the two artists sat in a Dsseldorf department store posing as "living sculpture," was meant to be experienced in person, not via photograph. And Tamas Szentjoby's "Czecho-Slovakian Radio Brick"-a brick which was used as an ironic substitute for hand-held radios after the latter were confiscated by Soviet authorities-was meant as a social protest, not a museum piece...
...popular notion that conceptualism is dry and hyper-intellectual, the curators are careful to pick pieces which display a range of emotions. Many of the pieces in the show, for instance, are disarmingly comical: like Vincent Trasov's campaign for mayor as Mr. Peanut, or Goran Trbuljak's photograph of a door with the inscription, "From time to time I stuck my finger through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon) or Wei Guangqing...
...sure. In the morning, there's a formal introduction, and all the electors are brought in alphabetically. Then at noon, the secretary of state formally calls electoral college to order. After that, the electors have a roll call and pose for a group photograph. Then everyone has lunch in the capitol, and at 1:30 they reconvene for vote...
...other thing stardom gets you is a genuine art-world institution to show your little treasures, or 380 of them, which is what the High Museum of Art in Atlanta is doing with John's photographs, until Jan. 28. However much exhibits like this may be a public service, they are also a venerable form of donor courtship. It's fair to say that the trustees of the High wouldn't mind if Sir Elton were to will them every bit of this collection someday. (They must hold their breath every time he tells the press how much he would...
...Milosevic is never sent to the Hague to be tried as a war criminal, your cover photograph will stand as a permanent symbol of contempt for this inhuman monster. Brilliant! ROY ADAMS Upper Marlboro...