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Cheryl Donegan at the New Museum is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

The Daily Pic: In 1993, Cheryl Donegan added sex to conceptual art.

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By Blake Gopnik
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This is a still from “Head”, a strange video by Cheryl Donegan that’s in the show called “1993” at the New Museum in New York. (Click on the image to watch the video.) The piece – surprise, surprise – was made in 1993, and feels like a comic take-off on the “procedural” videos made by conceptual artists two decades earlier. (“Watch me doing something; watch me doing something else.”) Here, Donigan seems to sexualize their work, and inject some gender and power issues into their art-about-art premises.

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