Marlene Dumas

Stephen Elliott bio ↓ · December 29th, 2008 · filed under art

Erotic, bleak, anonymous. A Marlene Dumas retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (more here). But is the New Yorker right, even in a complimentary way, to call Dumas paintings “heavy,” “unpretty,” and “insouciantly ugly?”

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Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the memoir The Adderall Diaries, the novel Happy Baby, and the erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. He is the editor of The Rumpus. Sometimes he twitters. More from this author →

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