MAW Collective Forget the Punchline
At their exhibition at CK2 in Montreal, MAW Collective upend humorous approaches to art, leaving viewers lingering for a punchline that never comes.
The Pictures Generation
In the early 1980s, I framed a photocopy of an art-magazine reproduction of a Sherrie Levine appropriation of a Walker Evans photograph. It seemed a logical conclusion to the appropriation chain, and I can see now how it pointed to the problem with so much of the art made by the Pictures artists: there were simply too many logical conclusions.
Teenage Kicks
On the occasion of Centre Clark’s 18th birthday, Mathieu Beauséjour curated a small but dense show under the title “Teenage Kicks.”