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Article: FREE REIGN.(Catherine David)(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
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- October 1, 2001
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ADAM LEHNER ON CATHERINE DAVID
IT CAME AS SOMETHING of a surprise to art-world observers when it was announced this summer that Catherine David, the quirky, possibly brilliant curator of the most recent Documenta, would take over from Bartomeu Mari as director of Rotterdam's Witte de With come January. David, after all, once held prestigious curatorships at the Jeu de Paume and the Centre Georges Pompidou. The Witte de With has been in existence for just over a decade and puts on only six exhibitions a year. It is an important alternative space--Europe's Dia perhaps--but one had to wonder: Couldn't she have done better?
Yet for those who've fondly ...