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Article: Rites of Passage, Tate Gallery, London. (exhibit)
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- Artforum International
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- September 1, 1995
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I succeeded, one could say, because I work in a very interesting field where I try in a very conventional field of culture, the so-called art scene, to develop a wider step.
Joseph Beuys, 1980
As with all good exhibitions, there are many routes one can take through "Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century," at London's Tate Gallery. Indeed the title itself implies a variety of routes, as in life, with periods of transition, false doors, and so on. One could attempt to follow a chronological line, for example, noting (with initial surprise) that the oldest artist included here, the still-vigorous Louise Bourgeois, born in 1911, is fully ten years older ...