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The Board of Directors of the a href= http://wpadc.org target= _blank Washington Project for the Arts /a (WPA) in Washington, DC recently announce

In Klein’s work, the critical structure and the sheer pleasure of painting are inextricable.

POSTCARDS, FAXES, AND EMAIL PRINTOUTS lie wanly in a vitrine. A plywood shelving unit holds rows of informational leaflets. One gallery wall is plastered with graphs and charts. Another is covered in hundreds of seemingly identical photographs. On a bank of video monitors, talking heads are explaining something. In a darkened corner, a slide projector clunks slowly through a carousel of images. Nearby, a 16-mm film whirs alongside a soporific voice-over. An illuminated table is covered in papers and newspaper clippings marked up with Post-its. Every object on display is accompanied by a length...

a href= http://www.davidzwirner.com target= _blank David Zwirner /a is presenting an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Spanning the ga

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, original name Félix González-Torres, (born Nov. 26, 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba—died Jan. 9, 1996, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Cuban-born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain. Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez-Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready-made motifs and objects to create his art, thereby challenging the idea of the unique art object that was so much a hallmark of...