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"An Economy of Means" at UMMA

by Kristen Letts Kovak

posted 4/15/2010

A current exhibit at the U-M Museum of Art questions the importance of technical skill in art. Aptly titled An Economy of Means, it features seemingly naive art works acquired by modest collectors, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Most of the exhibition chronicles a movement known as "post-painting" in which artists questioned the relevance of representational

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