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Cindy Sherman: Serpentine Gallery. (London).


Serpentine chief curator Rochelle Steiner's Cindy Sherman overview focuses on staged portraiture, which allows the artist to hide in plain sight as a shape-shifting Everywoman: starlet star·let  
n.
1. A small star.

2. A young film actress publicized as a future star.


starlet
Noun

a young actress who has the potential to become a star

Noun 1.
, frump frump  
n.
1. A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable.

2. A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate.
, Madonna, ogre, aging trophy wife. With some forty photographs from the "Untitled Film Stills" and more recent pieces that continue the artist's 2000 series skewering anxious, oblivious career girls, the show investigates Sherman's mix of satire and sympathy. "I want that choked-up feeling in your throat which may come from despair or teary-eyed sentimentality," she wrote early on, before burying all traces of sentimentality in grotesquerie gro·tes·que·ry also gro·tes·que·rie  
n. pl. gro·tes·que·ries
1. The state of being grotesque; grotesqueness.

2. Something grotesque.

Noun 1.
. Her return to portraiture by proxy gives this show its unsentimental but happy ending. June 5-Aug. 25; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, holds the national collection of modern art. When opened in 1960, the collection was held in Inverleith House, at the Royal Botanic Gardens. , Edinburgh, Dec. 6-March 7, 2004.
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Author:Aletti, Vince
Publication:Artforum International
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:May 1, 2003
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