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Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie Bobblehead from Dave McKenzie’s While Supplies Last, 2003, performance, poly-resin figures, 7 × 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2". “I KNOW YOU ARE DAVE, but who is Dave?” Sixteen years ago, in these pages, the artist Glenn Ligon recounted how a stranger once posed this question to Dave McKenzie’s face. Or rather, she posed it to a papier-mâché approximation of his face, which McKenzie wore while he handed out bobblehead figurines of himself during an opening at SculptureCenter in New York. Ligon floated a fe...

National Gallery of Art acquires iconic photograph by Dora Maar and work by photographer Susan Hiller Installation view of Susan Hiller’s Ten Months (1977–1979), gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, Gregory and Aline Gooding Fund, and David Knaus Fund © The Estate of Susan Hiller; Courtesy Lisson Gallery. WASHINGTON, DC .- Père Ubu (1936) by Dora Maar (1907–1997) is an iconic photograph of the surrealist movement. This exceptional print has recently been given to the National Gallery of Art by...

This week, reviews editor Alex Jovanovich introduces author and critic Gary Indiana’s landmark essay “Ex-Model Found In Wall” from the May 1985 issue. In 1970, the artist Holger Trülzsch and the Countess Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort—aka Veruschka, the German über-model and one of the most legendary faces of the 1960s—embarked on a photo project together for which she posed, less as celebrated subject and more as surreal scaffolding. For one series of pictures, Trülzsch, via scrupulous applications of paint to Veruschka’s nude body, transformed the chic ari...