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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Art Institute of Chicago Erased AIDS From a Label, Then Quietly Added It Back

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie October 3, 2022October 4, 2022

Some museumgoers pointed out that the museum’s label omitted discussions of HIV/AIDS, which are at the heart of the work.

Posted inBooks

Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence

Avatar photo by Elizabeth Zuba November 28, 2020December 1, 2020

The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer’s awareness and participation.

Posted inArt

Critics Question Restaging of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Fortune Cookie Installations During Pandemic

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 22, 2020July 28, 2021

Galleries David Zwirner and Andrea Rosen asked 1,000 participants to recreate a work consisting of a pile of fortune cookies. But staging the work with little context, amid a global pandemic and mounting anti-Asian sentiment, struck some as poorly thought-out.

Posted inIn Brief

Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Returns to New York for 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

Avatar photo by Zachary Small April 9, 2019

Thirty years after its debut, the historic artwork will return to stop passersby in their tracks.

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A Lively Debate on the Value of the Term “Latinx”

Avatar photo by Nicole Martinez February 13, 2019March 23, 2021

Reflecting on the use of the term Latinx is an opportunity to talk about art history, its canon, and the needs of artists.

Posted inArt

Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon

Avatar photo by Jeremy Lybarger December 1, 2018December 3, 2018

The artist’s aim was to “elevate the physiological aspects of HIV to a level of reality that represents the pain, loss, and massive suffering caused by this plague.”

Posted inArt

A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk February 3, 2018February 4, 2018

I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.

Posted inBooks

Artist Interviews and the Literature of Self-Endorsement

by Christopher Lyon January 14, 2018January 12, 2018

In three recent volumes, artists express nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Go-Go Dancing Platform) (1991), wood, light bulbs, acrylic paint, and Go-Go dancer in silver lamé bikini, sneakers, and personal listening device; overall dimensions vary with installation; platform: 21 1/2 x 72 x 72 in (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
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Falling in Love with a Felix Gonzalez-Torres Go-Go Dancer

Avatar photo by Adam Milner July 7, 2017January 7, 2021

During a recent visit to David Zwirner, I was transfixed by the dancer performing on a Gonzalez-Torres sculpture, so I decided to track him down.

Posted inArt

A Digital Reboot of Félix González-Torres’s Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 23, 2016August 3, 2021

Artworld polymath Greg Allen has made an odd, ritualistic, perhaps metaphorical memorial.

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The Open Works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama June 9, 2016June 11, 2016

LONDON — Every time Gonzalez-Torres’s work is exhibited, a critical opportunity arises.

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Prends-Ça! A Paris Exhibition Invites Visitors to Take the Artworks with Them

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 5, 2015October 14, 2015

PARIS — Take Me (I’m Yours) at the Monnaie de Paris revives and expands a 1995 exhibition curated by Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at London’s Serpentine Gallery, in which all the art is designed to be touched and taken away.

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