Arriving in New York from Los Angeles, Buffalo and beyond, several loosely affiliated cohorts met and mingled with artists native to the city, traded ideas, shared allegiances and became a "generati…
"He explores how you can use popular forms but have a set of avant-garde concerns operating in the work."
In 1977, Douglas Crimp, then a grad student at the City University of New York, organized a group exhibition called “Pictures” at the small downtown New York alternative gallery Artists Space…
With Douglas Crimp’s memoir, Before Pictures, having recently been released, below is a short history of his legendary show “Pictures,” held first at Artists Space in New York in 1977. The show…
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam announced today that it has received a major donation of contemporary art from German collector Thomas Borgmann. The donation includes over 600 works, among them pi
Born in Montreal in 1946, Jack Goldstein studied at CalArts before moving to New York in 1974. Here he became part of what would be known as the Pictures Generation.
A cult artist loosely affiliated with the Pictures Generation but who suffered a drug habit and was always self-sabotaging, Goldstein, who died in 2003, has seen a posthumous resurgence among curato…
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Some artists' signatures are self-expression, some are design elements, and some are just fun.