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Marlene Dumas; Measuring your own Grave. Book Review

This catalog to the traveling exhibition organized by Cornelia Butler for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ISBN 978-1-933751-08-5; distributed by D.A.P., Inc.) offers considerably more visual material than the large exhibition did;

Rist and Dumas: sex and the second sex at MoMA

Giant green strawberries float down in Pipilotti Rist video installation, Pour Your Body Out If your idea of sex is gorgeous and transcendent, there’s a show at MoMA for you. And if your idea of sex is prurient and the body’s animal qualities trouble you, there’s another show for you, also at MoMA. And the top miracle of all–both these shows are by women, Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist and South African artist Marlene Dumas. Pairing them in our heads, the two shows gave us plenty to enjoy and react to. Pipilotti Rist People lounging in the atrium in the ... More » »