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Charles Ray

CHARLES RAY is an artist. He lives in Los Angeles.

In Conversation

CHARLES RAY with Alexander Nagel

Recently I was reading a book about Michelangelo’s David where the scholar wonders why Michelangelo showed him as a fully grown young man, rather than as a prepubescent boy, the way Donatello and Verrocchio represent the figure. And my thought was: Really?

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi), <em>Spinario (Boy Pulling a Thorn from His Foot)</em>, cast ca. 1501. Bronze, partially gilt (hair) and silvered (eyes). 7 3/4 × 2 15/16 in. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012.
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SEPT 2021

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