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Artpace premieres response to ’98 hate crime

Artpace premieres response to ’98 hate crime

“In other countries, the reference to James Byrd is kind of lost, but the violence is very much there and present.” As an Artpace International Artist-in-Residence in 1999, Christian Marclay produced a 14-minute film titled Guitar Drag depicting an amplified electric guitar being dragged along a Texas road by a pickup truck. As part of

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