John Currin: Museum of Contemporary Art. (Chicago).It's been twelve years since Village Voice critic Kim Levin urged readers to "boycott" the "awful paintings" in John Currin's first gallery show. Now, the full range of Currin's provocations--smiling divorcees, coeds, neo-Mannerist nudes, and rosy-cheeked gay couples--will go on view in a midcareer retrospective organized by MCA MCA in full Music Corporation of America Entertainment conglomerate. It was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein as a talent agency. In the 1960s it bought Decca Records and Universal Pictures, and today it produces films, music, and television shows. associate curator Staci Boris and Serpentine chief curator Rochelle Steiner. In the catalogue (which includes essays by Boris and Robert Rosenblum), Currin muses ruefully rue·ful adj. 1. Inspiring pity or compassion. 2. Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret. rue about Cosmopolitan, Scrabble, and his own conservatism: "Basically, I enjoy normality in art. I like boring things, or I like pretty things." May 3-Aug. 24; Serpentine Gallery, London, Sept. 9-Nov. 2; Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Nov. 20-Feb. 22, 2004. |
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