By Elise Knutsen 8/16/11 6:48pm

Shindigger

Baldwin and Schumer.

Art and Auction in East Hampton

The swans in Town Pond paddled on serenely, unfazed by the crowds filing up James Lane toward Guild Hall. The birds, evidently, are accustomed to such revelry. The event, last Saturday, was a celebration of Richard Prince’s exhibition “Covering Pollock,” currently on display at the Hall’s gallery. The work, Mr. Prince’s latest, consists of black-and-white photographs of Jackson Pollock obscured by images of models, ’80s punk stars and various forms of old-school erotica. Inside, groups of curious viewers—some of them peering over their spectacles at the prints—made polite banter about the graphic images. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 4/07/10 12:38am

The Bullshit Artists

On Saturday, March 27, Mary Boone premiered a new video by the artist Barbara Kruger in her Chelsea gallery. The work, titled The Globe Shrinks, ran on a loop across four large screens. Clocking in at about 13 minutes, it consisted of about a half-dozen short segments, including one in which a skeptical journalist interviewed Read More

By Hilton Kramer 8/21/00 12:00am

Greed Is Really Bad, Says Designer Kruger

If you have been thinking about going to see the Barbara Kruger exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, there are certain things you may want to know in advance–before you hand over the price of admission. If, for example, you have an aversion to an unremitting onslaught of slogans, propaganda and political psychobabble, Read More

By Hilton Kramer 10/13/97 12:00am

Matthew Barney’s Buttocks In Dismal New MoMA Show

I received a phone call the other day from a writer who is preparing a profile of the well-known slogan artist Barbara Kruger, and from him I learned that in her next show, Ms. Kruger will make her debut as, like, a sculptor. What we can look forward to, I gather, is a three-dimensional effigy Read More