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Tracey Emin, My Bed
In the 1990s, as artists searched for new alternatives, many considered conceptual art of the 1970s an unfinished project.
Hans Haacke, Seurat’s “Les Poseuses” (small version), 1884-1975
Haacke documents the provenance of a Seurat sketch held in a bank vault to lay bare the commodification of art.
The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists
This loosely formed group of artists enlivened London’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s.
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Though this looks like an exhibit in a natural history museum, Hirst’s subject comes straight from art history.
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary
Why did the mayor of New York City threaten to close the museum exhibiting Ofili’s painting of the Virgin Mary?
Jeff Koons, Pink Panther
Koons’ cartoonish life-size emblems of childhood innocence are an assault upon both sincerity and taste.
