Larry Clark.(New York)(punk Picasso)

LUHRING AUGUSTINE

When I walked into "punk Picasso," Larry Clark's first New York gallery exhibition in several years, I thought I had entered a Conceptual-art installation. Here were many juxtapositions of photos and texts, photos and photos, texts and texts, texts and heroin wrappers (the latter artfully arrayed 5 la Richard Tuttle), as well as related objects, e.g., Untitled (Severed head of 'Vincent' from Teenage Caveman), 2001. This surfeit of information--kind of like Hans Haacke's, or Hanne Darboven's, or Gerhard Richter's, but not quite--transmitted an ...

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