Ghost in the Ward
Drawn to medicine following studies in art criticism, a nurse reconsiders care in the ‘postpandemic’ present
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Drawn to medicine following studies in art criticism, a nurse reconsiders care in the ‘postpandemic’ present
This week, the editors recall Coosje van Bruggen’s “Entrance, Entrapment, Exit: The Process of Bruce Nauman,” an essay from summer 1986. Curator Jeffrey Weiss considers the artist’s installation, His Mark, 2021, for Artforum’s March issue.Tracing the evolution of Nauman’s practice—one that investigates, according to the artist, “the possibilities of what art may be”—scholar and critic van Bruggen focuses her attention largely on Nauman’s work from the 1960s. She recounts his early art-school experiments in paint and his later shift to sculpture, film, and video; she also...