Full Circle

As you know, Martha Schwendener will be joining us for final critiques on December 11th. Martha is an independent curator, critic, and writer, writes regularly for the New Yorker and the Village Voice, among other places. Here is where we come full circle: below is the opening graf to her piece on Paul Chan that ran in April 2008 in the Voice:

On my way to the New Museum, I ran into a young curator. I told him I was looking forward to seeing The 7 Lights, a series of video projections and drawings, "because we all love Paul Chan."

He looked at me funny. "That kind of consensus," he said, "makes me really nervous."

I'd meant it as a joke, although it contained a kernel of truth. In a brief half-decade, Chan, an artist-activist, has racked up some powerful art-world supporters.

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Julia