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...roughly 30 years since the artist Cindy Sherman first put on makeup and a wig, arranged herself into some B-movie poses in B-movie settings and pointed her face toward her own camera to ask the questions: So what's real here? Is this a picture of me? Or a picture of the role I've taken on? And when we're talking about pictures, what exactly do we mean by real...
This impulse to take stock is one reason why the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City is opening a retrospective this week devoted to Jeff Wall, a Canadian artist who started making staged pictures around the same time as Sherman. (The Wall show continues at MOMA through May 14, then travels to Chicago and San Francisco.) In 1977, when he was 31 and teaching art history and studio practice in his hometown of Vancouver, Wall took his family on a trip to Europe, where he spent a lot of time looking at the old masters...
NATALIE I. SHERMAN ’08 of Baltimore, Md. and Lowell House Executive Editor...
...said, “and it’s what we’d like to see on all future purchases in the neighborhood.” —Staff writer Ariadne C. Medler can be reached at amedler@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman contributed to the reporting of this story...
Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Melissa Sherman declined to comment yesterday...