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Art
A Failed Entertainment

When

Opens Friday Jan 29, 2010 (6–8pm)

Jan 29, 2010 – Feb 19, 2010

Mondays–Fridays (10am–5pm)

Where
The Gallery at the LeRoy Neiman Center (2960 Broadway)
Price
FREE
Details
http://arts.columbia.edu/neimangallery/
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Only a footnote by David Foster Wallace could inspire a constellation of artists and filmmakers to make real what was dreamt. The complete filmography of James O. Incandenza appears in in the author's Rube Goldberg of a novel, Infinite Jest, and details 70-plus works (conceptual, technical, non-commercial, etc.) by the novel's avant-gardist — it's his eponymous film that causes those who see it to lose interest in all else. The videos are on display throughout gallery hours, and should be complex, parodic, prosaic, poetic — in other words, that catalog of adjectives used to describe its rich source.

Jason Jude Chan