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Reviews: Cindy Sherman, Bill Viola: A mirror for America's soul
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Visual Art
Cindy Sherman **** Bill Viola ****
SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, EDINBURGH
Junk food, junk films, junk telly, and I might add junk election,
junk president and all the consequences that have followed: American
culture is so pervasive and affects our lives in so many unwished for
and unwelcome ways that it seems perverse of the Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art to choose this moment to embark on a year-long
celebration of American art. Surely we have had enough of America?
But maybe there is another way of looking at it. Whatever the
politicians may like to think, ...
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watch out there's a hype about; Cindy Sherman: 'Clowns'.
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A portrait of the artist; ... as a young woman, a gangster's moll, a clown, or the Madonna. Cindy Sherman has spent 30 years photographing herself in a variety of guises, and now, ahead of a major Scottish exhibition, she gives a rare interview and an even rarer glimpse into the real woman behind the studied pose
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JULEE HOLCOMBE
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; "I'VE TRIED collaborating," sighs Cindy Sherman, "but I'm not very argumentative so...ere's nobody here but me." So it is that Cindy Sherman has become famous. She's the photographer...game, she is in no hurry to deny it. Cindy Sherman was born 38 years ago in New Jersey...
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Cindy Sherman. (Whitney Museum, New York)
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High-tech meets the sublime.(The Home Forum)
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BROCKTON MUSEUM EXHIBIT LOOKS TO PAST AND TO FUTURE
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CINDY SHERMAN
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VIDEO POETRY
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