Article: James Drake at SITE Santa Fe.(SANTA FE)

Charcoal is James Drake's instrument the way the piano was Glenn Gould's or the clarinet Benny Goodman's: they're made for each other. Witness the centerpiece of his SITE Santa Fe exhibition, City of Tells (2002-04), the 12-by-32-foot drawing that gave the show its name. Inspired by Raphael's School of Athens, Drake's tableau gathers figures around an elaborately set dining table that recedes diagonally into an arched interior. Additional figures appear before a desert landscape on the left and in the space beyond the arch. The mise-en-scene at once recalls natural-history dioramas and episodes from domestic comedy.

City of Tells was hung like a tapestry--no ...

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