An absence, not a presence, was the most striking thing about art in 2003. In all the exhibitions I saw this year, including massive biennial roundups in Venice and Havana, there was a notable ...

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Working with the painful slowness of a virtuoso who hates virtuosity, living on the Federal Art Project’s $22.77 ... grotesqueries dependent on rational rather than irrational meaning.