Some museumgoers pointed out that the museum’s label omitted discussions of HIV/AIDS, which are at the heart of the work.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence
The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer’s awareness and participation.
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Critics Question Restaging of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Fortune Cookie Installations During Pandemic
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.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Returns to New York for 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
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”
Reflecting on the use of the term Latinx is an opportunity to talk about art history, its canon, and the needs of artists.
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Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon
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.”
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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
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Artist Interviews and the Literature of Self-Endorsement
In three recent volumes, artists express nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world.
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Falling in Love with a Felix Gonzalez-Torres Go-Go Dancer
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.
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A Digital Reboot of Félix González-Torres’s Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence
Artworld polymath Greg Allen has made an odd, ritualistic, perhaps metaphorical memorial.
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The Open Works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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
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.