Anne Wagner: Time Lines - On the Drawings of Anthony McCall

For artist Anthony McCall, time is of the essence. The question is how to represent it, now that the age-old tropes of skull, scythe, and hourglass have had their day. In considering the artist’s expansion of the means of time’s depiction—an expansion that rested on his development of a new graphic language—art historian Wagner will explore McCall’s engagement with memory and loss. (02/14/2012)