MIXED MESSAGES
by Charlie Finch



Rogue legend Willoughby Sharp sat in austere silence watching Tacita Dean's stunning video of a landscape taken through the lens of a lighthouse, a postmodern rotorelief. John Baldessari lounged behind the front desk. Lawrence Weiner, in funny black clown shoes, animatedly waved a glass of brandy at amazon publicist Nadine Johnson. Next to the bar Jackie McCallister of the Fisher Landau Center was drawing the firths of his beloved Scotland in the air with his fingers, entrancing my wife.

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