"Send in the clowns/Oh where are the clowns?/Don't bother, they're here." We all know the words, but they seem especially apt in these Bushwhacked days. Maybe that's why there's been a proliferation of clown imagery in contemporary art, a phenomenon critic Jan Avgikos spotlights in the group exhibition she's curated, "I Am the Walrus." Spanning 20 years, it includes work by artists as varied as Ana Mendieta, Jack Pierson, and David Salle, the earliest being Paul McCarthy's 1974... More >>>