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Diana Thater at David Zwirner Gallery Is The Daily Pic By Blake Gopnik

Disaster Art

The Daily Pic: After Sandy, Diana Thater shows that Chernobyl was even worse.

Blake Gopnik

Updated Jul. 14, 2017 2:05AM ET / Published Nov. 06, 2012 6:37PM ET 

(Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York)

This image of an abandoned music room near Chernobyl is by L.A. artist Diana Thater. On Friday, her Chernobyl-themed video installation will go on view at David Zwirner gallery in New York – barely ten days after the gallery was flooded chest-high by Hurricane Sandy, as I discussed in a big feature on today’s Daily Beast. It bears witness to Zwirner’s deep resources – but also to the gallery’s fleet-footedness. The Thater show was due to happen in the New Year, but Zwirner and his staff realized how perfectly suited it was to New York’s post-disaster moment. (Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York)

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