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“BASQUIAT’S ‘DEFACEMENT’: THE UNTOLD STORY”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | New York
New York
New York
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PRINT March 2003
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO: THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTIAN LEIGH
Alexi Worth
For a six-year run beginning in 1987, CHRISTIAN LEIGH was one of the most visible—and ambitious—independent curators in the international art world. Then he vanished. ALEXI WORTH looks back on an enigmatic impresario of many guises whose disappearance remains as mysterious as Leigh himself.
PRODIGY
In the mid-’90s, around the time that Christian Leigh went underground, or vanished, or worse (the more lurid versions of the story pictured him at the bottom of a Venetian canal), a curious fax began circulating through New York galleries. At the time, Leigh was a familiar figure in the art world—the