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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 01 > Versatile avant-gardist Willoughby Sharp drew his share of controversy

Versatile avant-gardist Willoughby Sharp drew his share of controversy

Ivy League scion was central figure in conceptual and performance art

By Margalit Fox / The Bulletin
January 1, 2009

NEW YORK — Even by conceptual-art standards, Willoughby Sharp’s work stood out. There was, for example, the Oklahoma Gun Incident, which members of the art world still discuss with horror and awe more than 30 years later.

Sharp, the Ivy League-educated scion of one of New....

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