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December 20, 2004
Work Ethic Exh. cat. Baltimore and University Park: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. 248 pp.; 114 color ills. $29.95 (0271023341)

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Md., October 12, 2003–January 4, 2004; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, May 15–August 1, 2004; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, September 18, 2004–January 2, 2005

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.103

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Hi Red Center. Ochanomizu Drop (Dropping Event), 1964. Performance documentation of event held at Ikenobo Kaikan Hall, Tokyo. Black-and-white photographs. Dimensions variable. Photograph: Minoru Hirata. Collection Akasegawa Genpei. Courtesy Nagoya City Art Museum.

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The advertising poster for the exhibition Work Ethic includes the text “Artists. Hard at work or hardly working? You decide” above a photograph documenting the Hi Red Center’s Ochanomizu Drop (Dropping Event) of 1964, which consisted of dropping clothes and objects from a rooftop, their retrieval and placement in a suitcase that was subsequently stowed in a public locker, ending with the sending of its key to an individual chosen randomly from the telephone book....