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Article: Things the mind already knows: art dealer Gavin Brown and artist Urs Fischer conspired to turn Tony Shafrazi Gallery into a crypto-Pop, post-appropriationist portrait of itself.(Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?)
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- Art in America
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- September 1, 2008
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The photograph reproduced as the poster for "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?," a summer exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi gallery, depicts a glum Shafrazi. It was taken in 1974, shortly after his arrest for defacing Picasso's Guernica with a can of spray paint. By the 1980s Shafrazi was considerably more upbeat, running a historically important SoHo gallery that showed graffiti-inspired paintings. Four years ago, he relocated to Chelsea, where one climbs a wide flight of stairs to reach an airless vault typically displaying works culled from the gallery's earlier days, plus other secondary market material. Nobody ever seems to be in there ...
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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);
February 10, 2008 ;
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