Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist Howard Christopher Critic editor and curatorPevná vazba
Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist Howard Christopher Critic editor and curatorPevná vazba An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project--advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists…
Specifikacia Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist Howard Christopher Critic editor and curatorPevná vazba
Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist Howard Christopher Critic editor and curatorPevná vazba
An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project--advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery--that hoodwinked the New York art world.From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines--Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews--for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26 West Fifty-Seventh Street, in the heart of Manhattan's gallery district. The ads were promoting fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery. As gallery goers soon discovered, this address did not exist--the street numbers went from 16 to 20 to 24 to 28--and neither did the art supposedly exhibited there.
The scheme, eventually exposed by a New York Times reporter, was concocted by the artist Terry Fugate-Wilcox as both work of
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