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‘Rock Fan’ fits well in college setting

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 15, 2012

A silly little thing, “Rock Fan,” by the artist David Hammons, is a classic case of the flimsy gesture, the light-as-dust conceit, turned weighty and transfixing. Every time I see it on display at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, I do a double-take.

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