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Article: "Painting on the move"
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- Artforum
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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KUNSTMUSEUM, MUSEUM FOR GEGENWARTSKUNST, KUNSTHALLE, BASEL
To examine the history of painting during the past century as a whole is a daunting task, fit only for the historian or curator with kamikaze fantasies. While the definition of painting as a medium is still relatively clear--despite numerous technical innovations and self-inflicted wounds-- it seems futile to speak of painting as such without isolating specific issues and practices. Successful single-medium exhibitions tend to break down their subject into bitesize morsels (e.g., Paul Schimmel and Donna De Salvo's "Hand-Painted Pop" at LA MOCA, 1992, or Laura Hoptman's timely matchmaking in her three-way marriage of figurative ...