Director of intelligence: Daniel Birnbaum, Ann Goldstein, and Daniel Buren on Pontus Hulten.(PASSAGES)(In memoriam)

From: Artforum International | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Birnbaum, Daniel; Goldstein, Ann; Buren, Daniel | Copyright information

DANIEL BIRNBAUM

AT A DINNER I attended some years ago, an artist friend of mine asked Harald Szeemann whether "Les Machines Celibataires" (The Bachelor Machines), a legendary 1976 exhibition inspired by Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass that treated the theme of obsession in contemporary art, hadn't been a project by Pontus Hulten. Clearly pained at this younger individual's mistake--the show was Szeemann's own brainchild--the Swiss curator nevertheless managed a wonderfully...

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