Tag: Cold War

Alfredo Jaar, Shadows (detail), 2014. Lightbox with black and white transparency, 12 x 13 inches. Original photograph by Koen Wessing (1942-2011): Estelí, Nicaragua, September 1978. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Lelong.
Saturday, February 28th, 2015

Grave and Buried: Alfredo Jaar and Nicaragua’s Ignored History

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Using photographs by Koen Wessing, Jaar remembers a moment in the nation’s decades-long cold war strife.

Sigmar Polke, German, 1941–2010, Negative Value II (Mizar) (Negativwert II (Mizar)), 1982, Dispersion paint, resin, and pigment on canvas, 103 1/8 × 79 1/8? (262 × 201 cm), Private Collection. Photo: Alistair Overbruck, © 2014 Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014

A Critics’ Roundtable on Sigmar Polke at MoMA

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with Eric Gelber, Suzanne Joelson, Drew Lowenstein and Saul Ostrow