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ArtFebruary 2009 Exhibition notice by Mario Naves On "Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Marlene Dumas seems a chummy sort. At the press preview for “Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave,” a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, she ingratiated herself to sundry journalists and critics. Standing at the podium, Dumas thanked museum personnel, not least of all, the exhibition organizer Cornelia Butler, and referred to MOMA Director Glenn Lowry not by name, but as “the museum guy.” The crowd laughed. Dumas’s lack of pretension was refreshing. This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 27 February 2009, on page 49 Copyright © 2009 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-notice-4014
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