Flirtations with evidence: the factual and the spurious consort in the works of The Atlas Group/Walid Raad. Using the conventions of information-based art, Raad questions the reliability of documentation in general. His projects, which take as their theme the protracted political instability of the Middle East, range in tone from satirical to elegiac

Art in America, Oct, 2004 by Janet A. Kaplan

Janet A. Kaplan is professor of art history at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and the former executive editor of Art Journal.

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