Sit down with Dan Graham, a Renaissance man if ever there was one, and you'll likely get a verbal performance akin to high-energy jazz, a string of free-associations on modern culture: Claes Oldenberg's parodies, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica's neo-concretism, rubber sheet geometry, French novelist Michel Butor, and New Jersey architecture. Graham, 67, a self-taught artist whose formal education didn't go beyond high school, has seemingly read everything, known everybody, and done it all: conceptualism, films, performance, photography, city planning, theory, and rock 'n' roll collaboration (he even named the short-lived No Wave band the Theoretical Girls). Perhaps because he defies easy categorization, that distinctly American habit, Graham remains less appreciated in this country than he is in Europe, but his first U.S. retrospective, which began at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art and comes to the Whitney Museum this summer (opening June 25), should help bring wider attention to his... More >>>