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Robert Beck Biography
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1959 |
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland
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1973 |
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Yeager Fine Arts, Studio Arts Program, Baltimore, MD
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1983 |
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BA, Undergraduate Film and Television, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
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1989 |
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“Made in 8” Competition, sponsored by THE Kitchen and the 8mm Video Council, New York, NY
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1991 |
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1st Prize, Experimental Category: “Visions of US” Contest, sponsored by the SONY Corporation of America and the America Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1st Prize, Experimental Documentary Category, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, sponsored by IMAGE Film/Video Center, Atlanta, GA
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1993 |
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The Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Studio Program, New York, NY
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1995 |
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Art Matters, Inc., Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship
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1999 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award
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Lives and works in New York City
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The artist is now known as Robert Buck.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2008
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CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Beyond a Memorable Fancy, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY
Sorry We’re Closed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
The World is All, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, NY
Second Nature, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, New York, NY
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2007
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On The Marriage Broker Joke Office, Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Circus of Books, ZING Magazine Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
dust, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo)
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2006
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Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, New York (solo)
Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
ARMED - Contemporary Art and Violence, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY
The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
SUBJECT, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
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2005
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MULTIPLEX 2, Smack Mellon, New York, NY
Past Presence: Childhood and Memory, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, NY
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Altered Spaces, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Heavenly, Or A Slice of White, Hunter College, New York, NY
Back from Nature: The Sportsman Redux, The Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
10 Year Anniversary Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Multiplex II, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
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2004
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Art Loves Design, Miami Design District, Miami, FL (solo)
CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Needful Objects: Recent Multiples, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Your Heart is No Match For My Love, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Neoqueer, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
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2003
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Robert Beck, Russell Crotty, and Shibon Liddel, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Me, Myself and I CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Somewhere Better Than This: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Drawings: Gallery Artists, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Little Triggers, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY
Once Across The Mason-Dixon, Susan Inglett, New York, NY (solo)
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2002
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Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Different Class, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Acquiring Tastes, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
CRG Gallery, New York; The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art, New York, NY
Gallery Artists Group Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Arrested Development, Caste Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Different Class, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
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2001
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Song Poems, Cohen Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York, NY
The 13th Videobrasil, International Electronic Art Festival, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gray to Black: Johns, Kelly, Puryear and Serra, The Whitney Museum of America Arts, New York, NY
Crossing the Line, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
In Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Platz, New Platz, NY
Cathartic Disgust Gestalt, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
Drawings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cathartic Disgust Gesalt, The Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Edges of the Earth, Void, New York, NY
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2000
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Nine Years Later ("Girlfriend In A Coma"), Below 54, London, UK
RGB, Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nature Morte, CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Rainer Bourgemeister, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Wildlife, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
human/nature, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Destruction/Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA
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1999
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Hindsight: Recent work from the Private Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Calendar 2000, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
The Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago; one person installation CRG, New York, NY
Annie Albers, Robert Beck, Cadie Noland, Joan Semmel and Nancy Shaver, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
Pop!, The Lux Center, London, UK
TELE-vision, University of the Andes, Bogota, Columbia
13th Recontres Video Art Plastique, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair, France
The Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY
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1998
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Almanac: Art On Television, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CablecastStation Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France
Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK
Screening Room, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London Electronic Arts, London, UK
I’m Still in Love With You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Back-to-Back: Selected Fellows 1990-98, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Robert Beck and Jasmin Sian, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Images for the Millennium, Long Island Center of Photography, New York, NY
Portraits, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
I’m Still in Love With You, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Artists & Books: Picarone Editions 1997, Matisse Museum, Nice, France
Kasseler Documentar und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
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1997
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European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The New God: Investigations of New Photography and Film, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
33rd AnnualArt on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
You Should Know Better/Truth and Artifice in Contemporary Photography, The Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, Germany (solo)
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1996
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Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Limited Edition Artists’ Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
What I Did On My Summer Vacation, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Sugar Mountain, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Chateau de Bionnay, Lacenas, France
Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London, UK
Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
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1995
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Deuxieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada
Pantelleria Oasi Multimedia: 1st Video Festival Internazionale del Mediterraneo, Fondazio Orestiadi Comune Di Pantelleria, Pantellaria, Italy
The New York International Video Festival, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY
Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Faggots: A Communiqué from North America, curated by Bill Arning , Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
American Cinemathique, Los Angeles, CA
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1994
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The 1994 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY
10th Rio Cine Festival, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Frameline, San Francisco, CA
12th Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
Violence/Business/Power, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.v., Berlin, Germany
Who Chooses Who: Benefit Exhibition, Auction and Gala, choice of Robert Gober, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1993
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Video in the Reagen/Bush Years, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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1992
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7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Gegendarstellung: Ethics and Aesthetics in Times of AIDS, Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany
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1991
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Saint Vitas Dance, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
New Era Exhibition, curated by Collins and Milazzo, New York, NY
Queer, Butch, Femme..., Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
LA Freewaves: 2nd Celebration of Independent Video, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolis, TVE Espanola, Madrid, Spain
Independent Focus, WNET/Channel 13, New York, NY
Atlanta Film and Video Festival, IMAGE Film & Video Center, Atlanta, GA
Video: Violence, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Visions of US, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of Music: 10 Years After, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Video Witness: Festival of New Journalism, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
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1990
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The Territory, Southwest Alternative Media Project/Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Houston, TX
US Program: Video/Dystopia, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Commitment, Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam, Holland
The AFI National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Video and Dream, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The 1990 New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY
Couples, Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York, NY
AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Looking At A Revolution, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
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1989
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Erotophobia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
Group Material’s AIDS Timeline Touring Exhibition, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Made in 8, The Kitchen, New York, NY
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1988
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The Kitchen Presents, 4th International Video/Television Festival, Montbeliard, France
New Works, The Kitchen, New York, NY
New Independent Video, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
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| Literature |
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2008
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Carlin, T.J., Robert Buck, Time Out, July 17th, 2008
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2006
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Danby, Charles. “Untitled Magazine”, November 2006, pp. 27-28
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2006
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Arning, Bill. Aspect Magazine: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol. 8, online publication
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2006
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Kent, Sarah. “Robert Beck: Stephen Friedman Gallery,” Time Out London, June 26, 2006
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2006
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Opalka Gallery, The Sage College of Albany, Robert Beck, 14 August - 22 October 2006.
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2005
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Johnson, Ken. “Contemplating Childlike Wonder, Long Past Childhood,” The New York Times, September 2, 2005, p. E26
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2004
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Dent, Tory. “Robert Beck, CRG Gallery,” Parachute, no.115, Para-para insert, pg. 6
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2004
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Kastner, Jeffrey. Artforum, April 2004, p. 159-160.
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2004
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Harris, Jane. “Art Review,” Time Out New York, 19-26 February 2004, p. 60.
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2003
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Collins, Thom. Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art. Exhibition Catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003. pg. 88
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2003
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Johnson, Ken, “Robert Beck: Once Across the Mason-Dixon,” New York Times, May 16.
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2003
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Dodge, Alex, “Shot on Sight: A Conversation with Robert Beck,” Swing Set, Issue No. 3, p. 30-35.
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2002
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Hirsch, Faye, “Robert Beck & Dale Peck,” Art on Paper, May - June Issue, p.71
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2002
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Northcross, Wayne, “Art Portfolio,” Pride.02, 2002, Anniversary Edition, p. 116
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2002
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Aletti, Vince, “The Great Divide: Photography's Two Different Worlds,” The Village Voice, March 12, 2002. p. 59
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2002
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Verlag, Weidle, “Rainer Borgemeister: Lokomotive Denken,” Verlag, Bonn & Berlin, 2002, pp. 224-225, 255.
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2002
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Smith, Roberta, “Art Review,” The New York Times, February 22, 2002, p. E38
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2002
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Johnson, Ken, “Art Guide,” The New York Times, February 1, p. E37
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2002
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Holmes, Steven A., Acquiring Tastes Exhibition Catalogue, Real Art Ways, 2002, pp. 9-22
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2001
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Smith, Roberta, "A Benefit for Lover’s of Art and New York," The New York Times, November 1, 2001, p. E3
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2001
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Koether, Jutta, "Robert Beck: ‘The Woods’," Kunstforum, June-July, 2001, pgs. 156-158
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2001
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Schwendener, Martha, "Behind the Music – Two Shows Get in the Groove With LP Art," Time Out New York, August 2, 2001, p. 52
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2001
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Hagen, Susan, "Things That Make You Go Ewwww…," Philadelphia City Paper, May 3 – 10, 2001, p. 9
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2000
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Leeb, Susanne, "Des Einen Freud, Des Anderen Leid,” Texte zur Kunst, September 2000, p. 197-199
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2000
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Arning, Bill, "Review of Exhibitions: Robert Beck at CRG," Art In America, September 2000, p. 155
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2000
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Johnson, Ken, "Art In Review: human/nature," The New York Times, July 21, 2000, p.E30
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2000
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Cotter, Holland, "Art In Review: Robert Beck 'Nature Mort,'" The New York Times, March 17, 2000, p. E37
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1999
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Siegel, Katy, "Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver," Art Forum, December 1999, p.141
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1999
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Smith, Roberta; "Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver," The New York Times, August 6, 1999 p. E-40
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1999
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Schjeldahl, Peter, "Selected Affinities: The Artist as Curator," The New Yorker, September 6, 1999, p. 86-87
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1999
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Saltz, Jerry, "Mood Swings: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver," The Village Voice, July 27, 1999, Vol. XLIV No. 29, p. 121
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1998
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Perchuk, Andrew, "Reviews: Robert Beck," Artforum, March 1998, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, p. 101-102.
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1998
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Johnson, Ken, "Portraits," The New York Times, February 20, 1998, p. E-34
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1997
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Smith, Roberta, "Robert Beck," The New York Times, October 17, 1997, p. E-37
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1997
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Feaster, Felicia, "You Should Know Better," Art Papers, September-October 1997, Vol. 21, Issue 5, p. 60
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1997
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Smith, Roberta, "Celluloid Cave/You Should Know Better," The New York Times, June 27, 1997, p. C-24
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1996
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Smith, Roberta, "Sugar Mountain," The New York Times, April 26, 1996, p. C-27
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1996
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Smith, Roberta, "Robert Beck," The New York Times, February 9, 1996, p. C-23
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1996
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Arning, Bill, "Robert Beck," Time Out New York, January 31, 1996, p. 24
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1995
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Homes, A.M., "Reviews: Robert Beck," Artforum, February 1995, Vol. XXIII, No. 6, p. 91
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1993
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Knee, Adam, "The Feeling of Power: AIDS Activism on/through Video," The Minnesota Review, Nos. 40, Spring/Summer 1993: "The Politics of AIDS," pp. 94-101
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1992
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Bowen, Peter McKnight, "Not In Your Local Video Stores: AIDS Videos and Their Public(s)," Public Art Issues, No. 1, 1992, pp. 29-32
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1991
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Smith, Roberta, "New Galleries In Soho To Not So, " The New York Times, November 15, 1991, p. C26
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1991
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Milvy, Erika; “Bah! Bah! Say Black Sheep,” New York Post, Wednesday, July 10, 1991, p. 25
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1991
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Bowen, Peter McKnight; "America's Queerest Home Videos," Outweek, No. 49, June 6, 1991, p. 63
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1991
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Watney, Simon, "Queer," Frieze, Issue 2, 1991, pg. 60
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1990
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Gallagher, Steve, “US Video Program: Video/Dystopia," European Media Arts Festival Catalogue, 1990, pp. 80-81
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1990
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Berkson, Bill, "Group Material's AIDS Timeline," Artforum, March 1990, Vol. XXVIII, No. 7, pp. 168-169
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