"Work Ethic": Baltimore Museum of Art

ArtForum, Feb, 2004 by T.J. Demos

Alternatives were offered in "Quitting Time," the show's final category, of which the exemplary work was Robert Barry's Closed Gallery, 1969, represented by an announcement for its original exhibition stating that the gallery would be closed for the length of his show. Can art ever advance work's stoppage, or do its attempts result only in further refinements of products and markets? Leaving this question to the viewer's labor, "Work Ethic" succeeded in comprehending a significant field of recent artistic practice, casting an extremely diverse grouping of work within a unified but effectively complicated logic.

"Work Ethic" travels to the Des Moines Art Center, May 15-Aug. 1; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 18-Jan. 2, 2005.

T.J. Demos teaches art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art (See Contributors.)

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