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Christopher Bedford is the curator of all three presentations. The Mixed Signals exhibition, tour, and catalogue were made possible, in part, by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the iCI Advocates, the iCI Partners, Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and Barbara and John Robinson.  \nAll exhibitions receive support from the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and  \nWexner Center members.  \nGENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE WEXNER CENTER  \nACCOMMODATIONS  \nPublished by  \nWexner Center for the Arts The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210-1393 USA  \nTel: +(614) 292-0330  \nFax: +(614) 292-3369  \n[www.wexarts.org](www.wexarts.org)  \n© 2010 The Ohio State University / Wexner Center for the Arts ISBN 978-1-881390-48-0  \nUnless otherwise noted, all artworks are © the artist.  \nThe Wexner Center extends sincere thanks to the athletes of the 2009 Bexley High School and Columbus Academy football teams, along with their coaches and school administrators, for their generous cooperation with artist Catherine Opie in producing several of the images featured in Hard Targets.  \nThanks also to all the artists and the lenders to the exhibition.  \nFRONT COVER: Douglas Gordon Philippe Parreno  \nZidane: A 21st Century Portrait  \n(still detail), 2006  \nTwo-video projections Dimensions variable Collection Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Produced by Anna Lena Films and Palomar Pictures  \nFilm still courtesy of Studio Douglas Gordon  \nBACK COVER:  \nCatherine Opie  \nDavid, Austin, and Bryant, 2009  \nChromogenic print  \n40 x 30 in.  \nCourtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles  \nJanuary 30–April 11, 2010  \nBreaking the Huddle  \nChristopher Bedford  \nSTILLS FROM Two Days in April (Don Argott, 2007)  \nIn Two Days in April (2007), an acclaimed documentary directed by Don Argott that examines the National Football League Draft, there is a scene in which an elite group of former-college players invited to the prestigious Senior Bowl file into an auditorium full of stoic men wielding clipboards and pens, their attention alternating between the stage and the serious task of note taking. These players, clad only in shorts designed, apparently, to maximize muscle exposure, are weighed and measured as the audience looks on. As guarded whispers are exchanged, results are tabulated, and judgments are passed, the collective effort to maintain an atmosphere of high—almost scientific—seriousness is palpable. Once this process is complete, each player steps down from the stage, traces of mild discomfort playing across a few faces. In the aftermath, one player confides to the camera that the scene is a meat market and he’s glad it’s over.  \nAlthough the accumulation of empirical data—height, weight, wingspan etc.—is the ostensive purpose of this event, it goes without saying that the same information could easily be gathered by more modest, less theatrical means. But the men in the audience are not only interested in data. They are disciples of the myth that athletic prowess and potential are not a matter of weight and measure alone; appearance counts, too. They are in search of the candidate colloquially known as a “specimen,”and the only way to identify such a candidate is through close looking (one of the few procedures that NFL scouts and art historians have in common). This myth hinges on the notion that ability is visible—that it can be recognized and represented, as it were—not just through performance but through appearance.  \nT","cbCairWAjqc2e8Ui","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairWAjqc2e8Ui","pdf",1372582,"English","# Hard Targets Exhibition Overview\n## Exhibition Lineage and Organization\n## Support, Funding, and Acknowledgments\n# Featured Works and Visual Context\n## Front and Back Cover Works\n## Selected Artwork Notes\n# Interpreting Masculinity, Performance, and Evaluation","[{\"question\":\"What is Hard Targets and how is it related to other exhibitions?\",\"answer\":\"Hard Targets is a revised presentation that builds on Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, which itself expands Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets—Masculinity and Sports. 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