Article: Obscured visions.(MIke Kelley talks about his show in Amsterdam)(Interview)

Latter-day defenders of the one true path of modernism may think that they were blindsided, but few real challenges come at you straight on. The one offered by the artists in "Eye Infection," the five-artist show at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, that closed in January, comes from behind and beside, but we always knew it was there. The long-term threat posed to the conventional wisdom about what makes for a decisive critical art has been rudely explicit in the work of Robert Crumb, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, and H.C. Westermann since the '60s and in that of Mike Kelley since the late '70s. For much of that time these artists may have seemed too far in the distance to worry ...

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