Smart Museum of Art
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Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, The Rape of the Sabine Women, Courtesy Roebling Hall, New York
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Jan 31, 2008 – May 4, 2008
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (10am–4pm)
Thursdays (10am–8pm)
Fridays (10am–4pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
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It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation, of combining tropes from disparate sources into finely tuned, cohesive artworks. Artists Guy Ben-Ner, Arturo Herrera, Catherine Sullivan, and Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation explore the method through several video installations that utilize bits from classic painting and literature. Ben-Ner recounts Moby Dick via his six-year-old daughter, and Sussman recasts The Rape of the Sabine Women in a modern idiom.
