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[ART JOURNAL] The outsider

Dan Graham may not be widely recognized, but his influence has shaped the very fabric of contemporary art

By Randy Kennedy  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

His glass pavilions have been placed indoors and outdoors in locations as remote as the Arctic Circle in Norway. And while they might look like curvaceous updates on Minimalist sculpture or like perceptual exercises — you can look through the glass, but it is often mirrored enough so that you look at yourself too in the landscape — he said he wants people to think of them as existing “somewhere between architecture and television.” He notes that children and the elderly tend to understand them intuitively.

“All my intellectual ideas come from popular culture,” he said, at one point protesting: “I’m not deconstructing it. I’m celebrating it.”

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