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Alfredo Jaar at Vogt Gallery is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Portraiture

The Daily Pic: Alfredo Jaar sketched all the portraits he could think up for Antonio Gramsci, master and martyr of the Italian far left.

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(Courtesy Alfredo Jaar and Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY)
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Alfredo Jaar, best known for his rigorous photo-conceptual work, made these and many other recent sketches of Antonio Gramsci in the wee hours after his assistants went home.

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