Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Interesting art exhibit without actual art.

How do you do a show if you don't have art? Use copies. How do you get copies? Find photographs of the original art. So that's what Ms. Bancroft and Mr. Nesbett did. They photocopied illustrations of existing, or once existing, Hammons pieces from books and magazines, and downloaded other images from the Internet. They then taped the 8-by-11-inch prints to the gallery walls.

A Street Seer's Vision, or Photocopies of It at Least