Following Tara Donovan’s untitled, honeycomb-inspired installation at midtown’s Lever House building, is a bold, black and white lobby display from Barbara Kruger, which was commissioned by real estate mogul Aby Rosen. The space has previously housed works by Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Keith Haring. Read More »

Despite the snarkification of our culture thanks to the likes of Gawker, Perez Hilton, and Simon Cowell, its hard to improve upon Barbara Kruger’s biting feminist witticism. So why try?

This piece, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981, is currently on view in The Pictures Generation show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other gems on display include I Can’t Look at You and Breathe at the Same Time, 1981-84, and It’s a Small World, But Not If You Have to Clean It, 1990.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first primarily multimedia historical survey, The Pictures Generation, takes its title from the moniker that sprung up for a group of artists working in New York during the late-’70s and early-’80s. This unofficial movement was encapsulated by the 1977 exhibition Pictures at alternative gallery Artists Space, which debuted work from the incubators of Buffalo’s Hallwalls and conceptual artist John Baldessari’s classes at CalArts, outside of LA.
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