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Unearthing Ant Farm: a quarter century after the disbanding of Ant Farm, a traveling exhibition pieces together the history of this group of iconoclastic, media-obsessed artists.(Collectives)
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Art in America
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January 1, 2005| Author:
Feldman, Melissa E.
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Ant Farm may be largely unknown to the general public, but many people, even those with little interest in contemporary art, will be familiar with the image of 10 vintage Cadillacs half-buried nose down in a field. Cadillac Ranch (1974), which still stands rusting and graffiti-covered in Amarillo, Tex., may be the only indelible image created by this renegade, hippie-era artistic collaborative. Indeed, "Ant Farm 1968-1978," organized by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Arch...