Adrian Piper.(Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995)

Adrian Piper's exhibition "Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995" was a compact survey comprising photo-text panels, installations, and a loop of wall-projected videos collectively given the fiercely immodest title The 20th Century Video Set, 1973-90. Grids and human figures, mostly in photographic grayscale and often flecked with red headlines, typified the look of hard-edged 1980s and early-'90s Conceptualism; documentation was on hand, too, of Piper's wilder though still highly conceptual performances--such as The Mythic Being, 1973, in which she cruised public places sporting "threatening" signifiers, such as a bushy Afro, a handlebar mustache, and saucer-size sunglasses; and bunk …