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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990604
Author:Michael O'Sullivan

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

-- William Butler Yeats THE IMPORTANT, recent work of painter Brice Marden looks like Silly String writ large -- call it Serious String, if you will. Organized by Charles Wylie of the Dallas Museum of Art, a retrospective of 24 paintings, seven drawings and a half dozen prints made by Marden since 1990 is now on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, after which it will travel to the Miami Art Museum and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. The gracefully-installed show, which gives Marden's ...

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