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Contemporary Crash Course: Conversation with John Fraser

Presented by McNay Art Museum at McNay Art Museum

May 23, 2013

John Fraser, artist, and Lyle Williams, Curator, Prints and Drawings, discuss connections between Fraser’s works on paper in the McNay’s collection and the interwoven surface of his sculpture Marker, on view in Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions.
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