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Joseph Kosuth – a labyrinth into which I can venture
Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery
Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery
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Joan WaltemathJOAN WALTEMATH is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She writes on art and has served as an editor-at-large of the Brooklyn Rail since 2001. She has shown extensively and her work is in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, the National Gallery of Art, the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently the Director of the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA.
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