Bruce Hainley

05/04/11

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  More Art Hours Than Can Ever be Repaid by David Rimanelli

  Issue 14, January–February 1994

  Mike Kelley's Whitney Retrospective. '"Sherrie Levine is the Franklin Mint of Modernism." With that zinger, Rimanelli closed his review of the artist and opened a window, letting fresh sea breezes air out entire schools of discourse musty with solemnity; sadly, others quickly nailed it shut again, desperate only for those familiar, recycled fumes. I wanted to pay brief homage to one of the best in the biz, whose observations about Mike Kelley, Levine, et al., dazzle even more today than when they were first written (no small feat). A few years ago, Rimanelli was quoted in these pages about some supposedly rigorous (I think that’s still the vaunted term) art world claque: "This 'scene' reminds me unpleasantly of the original black-and-white Night of the Living Dead, suffused with necrophilia and necrophagy." Given so much of what passes for lively thinking in the art world, the zombies won.'

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  Anne Hamilton by David Rimanelli

  Issue 15, March–April 1994

  Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA

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  Sherrie Levine by David Rimanelli

  Issue 16, May 1994

  Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

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  Ross Bleckner and Felix Gonzalez-Torres by David Rimanelli

  Issue 22, May 1995

  Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

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  Nancy Reese by Siobhan McDevitt

  Issue 65, March 2002

  Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. 'Lessons to be learned in the particulars of how to say what needs to be said (the only way writing survives its moment), subjects "handled with care" in every meaning of the phrase.'

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  Milton Avery by Siobhan McDevitt

  Issue 71, November–December 2002

  UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

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  Sue de Beer by Emily Speers Mears

  Issue 92, June–August 2005

  Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, USA

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  Mike Bouchet by Emily Speers Mears

  Issue 93, September 2005

  maccarone inc., New York, USA

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  Handled with Care by Rhonda Lieberman

  Issue 41, June–August 1998

  On Jim Isermann

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  Sean Landers by Sean Landers

  Issue 83, May 2004

  Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA. 'Only Roland Barthes, answering the waggish call to review his own sly autobiography, Roland Barthes, has ever bested this auto-reach-around.'

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