Assembled in Planned Jumbles of Found Creation

Roberta Smith, The New York Times , August 1, 2013
“Haim Steinbach: Once Again the World Is Flat” is a retrospective organized by Tom Eccles, the center’s executive director, and Johanna Burton, director and curator at the New Museum in Manhattan. It surveys the career of this 69-year-old artist, known since the mid-1980s for arranging store-bought domestic items and toys, along with the odd artifact, on jutting Formica-clad shelves. Mr. Steinbach’s Pop Art-meets-Minimalism combinations were briefly grouped with work of artists like Jeff Koons and Ashley Bickerton under the rubrics of Neo Geo and Commodity Art. But within any one piece, the differences and similarities in color, form, function and social purpose have a more resonant effect. At Bard, Mr. Steinbach’s exhibition offers a lithe account of his development before and since these works, including many little-seen early pieces.
 
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