A retrospective has the ability to map the arc of an artist's career, its unifying and diverging themes, but it's unlikely that it's an artist's intention to have his or her life's work shown en masse ...

Bruce Conner, “CROSSROADS [promotional still]” (1976), 35mm film (black and white, sound) transferred to video, 37 minutes, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ...

Ask any art school student “Who is Bruce Conner?” and depending on their major, they’ll provide you with a vastly different answer: a) Bay Area conceptual artist; b) experimental filmmaker; c) that ...

There were other mushrooms, of course. Conner will always be considered a San Francisco artist — at a nose-thumbing distance from the pomp and protocol of New York. Psychedelia, the Beats, a certain ...

Bruce Conner, 74, a filmmaker-without-camera who spliced together old newsreels, commercials, pornography, educational movies and other "found footage" to create powerful social commentary and became ...

Bruce Conner, “CHILD” (1959-50), wax, nylon, cloth, metal, twine, and high chair, the Museum of Modern Art, gift of Philip Johnson (© 2016 Bruce Conner / Artists ...

BRUCE CONNER: IT’S ALL TRUE is the artist’s first monographic museum exhibition in New York, the first large survey of his work in 16 years, and the first complete retrospective of his 50-year career.