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March 4, 2008
Constance Lewallen, ed. A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s Exh. cat. Berkeley: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and University of California Press, 2006. 256 pp.; 75 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520250857)

Exhibition schedule: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, January 17–April 15, 2007; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), Italy, May 23–September 9, 2007; Menil Collection, Houston, October 12, 2007–January 13, 2008

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.19

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Bruce Nauman. The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign) (1967). Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame. 59 x 55 x 2 in. Artist’s proof; collection of the artist. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater, New York. © 2006 Bruce Nauman/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, though occupying only four rooms at the Menil Collection in Houston, is an intense, richly complex and subtly disturbing exhibition. The curator in Houston, Franklin Sirmans, has helped create a fluid, dynamic exhibition space that highlights the extraordinary diversity of Nauman’s production from 1964–69 and establishes key themes and paths of development, while leaving many connections open-ended and available for viewers to pursue for themselves....