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  • On a pedestal near the entrance to the show, at James & Nancy Glazer, is something that you could mistake for a piece of faux-archaic sculpture by the contemporary German neo-Expressionist Anselm Kiefer.

    NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2012

  • On a pedestal near the entrance to the show, at James & Nancy Glazer, is something that you could mistake for a piece of faux-archaic sculpture by the contemporary German neo-Expressionist Anselm Kiefer.

    NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2012

  • His own prose is faux-archaic, eccentrically punctuated, and liberally seeded with classical allusions.

    orbis quintus 2009

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