December 1, 2009
“A Tabletop Conjuror, Rediscovered”
Stuart Sherman (1945-2001) doing one of his performance pieces in Battery Park City. (John Matturri.)
Monday’s New York Times featured a review of two current exhibitions devoted to the late Stuart Sherman, concluding with a nod to
the example he sets for young artists now: how to make art that’s about yourself but isn’t, using nothing, or almost nothing, materially speaking; and how to keep making it whether you have an audience or not because you need to stay alive and want to stay awake.
Video here (from “Your Program of Programs,” 1983).
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