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Street Market
(Venice Biennale) Venice was short on excitement this year, but at
the end of the Arsenale's mind‑numbing video arcade, Barry McGee,
Stephen Powers, and Todd James ‑ whose East Coast ‑West Coast
collaboration brings the postgraffiti aesthetic into sharper
focus‑threw a wild party they called Street Market. Their overturned
trucks, grungy storefronts, and overlapping wall drawings made a big
impression at Deitch Projects last fall, but in Venice this
sprawling installation felt like the real American Pavilion: funky,
witty, audacious, and a little dangerous. |
