Stuart Sherman in ‘Eleventh Spectacle’ (1978)
Photograph by Babette Mangolte
Sherman’s “spectacles” were programs of very short plays performed on portable tabletops propped open on the sidewalk—or in the park, or someone’s apartment—in which he would physically manipulate and create semantic “dramas” around inanimate objects. He created and performed eighteen “spectacles” in all (12 solo and 6 group performances).
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Jimmie Durham, ‘The Piece of Wood’ (2005)
Read the piece of wood’s biography here .
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Beyoncé as Frida Kahlo , Blue Ivy as Pablo Picasso and Jay Z as Jean-Michel Basquiat at a Halloween party at Charlie Bird in New York City.
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‘Incidents 001’ (2012)
‘Incidents 002’ & ‘Incidents 003’ (2012)
‘Incidents 005’ (2012)
All works from the ‘Incidents’ series, by Henry Wessel .
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Bruce Nauman , ‘Green Light Corridor’ (1970)
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Walker Evans, ‘Labor Anonymous’ (1946)
Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014) by David Campany traces Walker Evans’ work as a jurnalist in avant-garde publications as well as mainstream titles such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Architectural Forum, Life and Fortune.
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Ennio Morricone , theme song for ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, directed by Sergio Leone (1966)
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William Michael Harnett , ‘The artist’s letter rack’ (1879)
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