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Article: Robert Morris and the Emperor's New Clothes
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- The Washington Post
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- February 13, 1994
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Robert Morris is the ficklest of artists. In the '60s, the art
world viewed him as a minimalist. It does not do so now. Polemicist
and mime, painter, sculptor, horseman, labyrinth designer,
scatterer of dirt and grease, dancer and deceiver - he is all of
these and more. His two-site retrospective - half of it's on view on
lower Broadway, at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo; the other half
descends the spiral ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's uptown Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum - so celebrates his variousness that uninitiated
viewers may find themselves suspecting that its objects were
produced by a dozen different men.
Morris likes to swerve: He's sometimes confrontational, at
other times demure. ...