Christian Marclay: UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.(midcareer retrospective of the artist's media manipulations)

Karlheinz Brandenburg is a name that would probably ring few bells for visitors to Christian Marclay's midcareer retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum, but in critical respects, he stands as a kind of shadow figure to the artist's investigations into the intersection between sound and visual culture.

Surveying Marclay's output of the last two decades--collaged album covers, altered vinyl, :and musical instruments retooled into sculptural objects, as well as video and photography--one confronts a host of musical references as a matter of course: John Cage, Sonic Youth, any number of ...

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