Art MATTHEW HIGGS In his role as director and chief curator at White Columns, Higgs has been known to cram upward of five exhibitions at a time into a single modest space. His art work follows a different tack, accomplishing much with very little: framed pages and covers ripped from art books or exhibition catalogues. “New York Now,” printed in a jazzy black font on a silver ground, feels pregnant with historical weight and meaning, as do “Young Mexicans” and “British Art Today.” Other pages, printed with abstract geometric designs and even more minimal texts that recall sixties abstraction and early Conceptualism, beg questions about the nature of art itself: should the artist’s job be to generate “new” objects or just to look carefully at the world around him, selecting from and recycling what’s already there? |