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‘Women Can Choose to Knock Each Other Down’: Ivanka Trump Decries Jennifer Rubell Performance

Performances of the work are set to be held nightly through February 17.

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  Alex Greenberger
• Feb 5, 2019 3:25 pm

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‘…But We Can’t Pay You’: Performance Art and Money’s Knotty Relationship

A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a "special food performance" by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the tenth…

• By
  Hannah Ghorashi
• Oct 29, 2015 9:30 am

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Not Another Nude: Jennifer Rubell and Brandi Twilley Take on the Male Gaze

A new series of diptych portraits by Brad Jones—the "next sensational, aggressive American (male) painter," according to the press release—is opening Wednesday, October 29 at Sargent’s Daughters in…

• By
  Alexander Mahany
• Oct 28, 2014 5:26 pm

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Let My People Show: Welcome to ‘Jew York’

Jewish art geography, from Aleph and Arbus to Robert Zimmerman

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  Robin Cembalest
• Jun 27, 2013 11:33 am

• Features

Rubells Announce December Program

Each year, the Rubell Family Collection, the influential contemporary arts foundation based in Miami, showcases its recent acquisitions timed to Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, "American Exuberanc…

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  Caroline Elbaor
• Nov 9, 2011 3:39 pm

• Features

Idolize What You Eat

At the Brooklyn Ball last night, even before guests saw the Bruce Nauman-inspired take on cheese- part of food artist Jennifer Rubell's multi-part feast for the night—they likely smelled it. During co…

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  Kimberly Chou
• Apr 23, 2010 12:02 pm

• Interviews

Inside the Rubell Family

In the late 1960s, Don and Mera Rubell, a newlywed couple living on the upper eastside of New York City, began to share an enthusiasm for contemporary art. On weekends they trafficked the Manhattan gr…

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  Mary Barone
• Dec 4, 2009 6:33 pm

• Features

Jennifer Rubell for Performa 09

There's something wonderfully cynical about Jennifer Rubell's food performances, in which food occupying its most honest state. In her large food piles, the interest in sheer tonnage recalls slopping…

• By
  Aimee Walleston
• Nov 2, 2009 1:42 pm