Notes from the Bass Museum, Cindy Sherman at MOMA “Since 1977, when Cindy...

“Since 1977, when Cindy Sherman first exhibited her “untitled film Stills” of fictional B-movie starlets, she has surrendered herself to photographic portraits of nearly every female archetype imaginable. So completely does the artist disappear into her subjects—disheveled fashion victims, art-historical icons, tragic dowagers, manic clowns, Beverly Hills housewives—that it’s hard to believe they are all the same woman.” by Linda Yablonsky for the Wall Street Journal (2/26.2012)

‘Cindy Sherman’ at Museum of Modern Art

PHOTOGRAPHY'S ANGEL PROVOCATEUR

"At many points throughout this dense, often exciting show, which opens on Sunday, we are confronted by an artist with an urgent, singularly personal vision, who for the past 35 years has consistently and provocatively turned photography against itself." By Roberta Smith for the New York Times