Article: Gillian Wearing. (Preview).(Brief Article)

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Gillian Wearing's best-known image is probably still the photo from 1992-93 of a businessman holding a self-penned sign that says I'M DESPERATE. Her first American retrospective, though, examines what came after--beginning with Sixty Minute Silence, 1996, which shows a group of police officers trying to freeze in a portrait pose as an hour ticks by, and ending with Broad Street, 2001, which documents an evening ...

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