More to It Than Meets the Eye; David Sherry's Work May Be Silly but, in Performance Art, There's Simply No-One to Touch Him, Argues Moira Jeffrey
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In my days as a shop girl, getting customers out of the building was more of a problem than getting them in. On Christmas Eve, in the old Waterstones branch in Glasgow's Union Street, customers would hammer on the glass or openly weep when we closed at 5pm. Once, we accidentally locked in a couple who had managed to avoid the persistent closing announcements.
One Friday night, when I had to tell an old guy at the front door that it was past closing time, he started to scream abuse. "What kind of f****ing pub is this anyway?" he shouted. You couldn't blame him really. Not even a sober person would expect a bookshop to be open at 10 at night.See the full content of this document
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More to It Than Meets the Eye; David Sherry's Work May Be Silly but, in Performance Art, There's Simply No-One to Touch Him, Argues Moira Jeffrey
It has all come horribly back to life, seeing Glasgow-based artist David Sherry's show at the city's Gallery of Modern Art. One whole sequence of works is based on Sherry's loitering tactics in sh...
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