The Guggenheim's New Show of All-Star Photoconceptualism Questions Official Records and How We Depict the Past
Sarah Charlesworth, Herald Tribune: November 1977 (1977, printed 2008). © 1977 Sarah Charlesworth. Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. “Fake news” will be a tempting aperture through which to approach “Off the Record,” a new group show at the Guggenheim that looks at the ways in which artists consider, critique, or otherwise manipulate “official” documents of history and state power. It wouldn’t necessarily be wrong to take that tack. But it’s not what was on curator Ashley James’s mind as she organized the show—her first since becoming the museum...
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