LIKE SO MUCH ART of the present, the work of Sung Tieu necessitates a fair amount of explanatory text. Reading the growing body of writing about Tieu (the artist will open her first US solo exhibitions “Infra-Specter” at Brooklyn’s Amant on March 30, “Civic Floor” at Cambridge’s MIT List Visual Arts Center on April 4 nearly concurrently), I was struck by the frequency with which the Cold War surfaced as a referent. The term rightly identifies the period about which much of the artist’s research is conducted, but also slyly tethers her object of study to her own artistic operations. The Cold War
Metro Pictures, champion of the pictures generation, is closing
Cindy Sherman at the installation of a show at Metro Pictures Gallery in New York on Nov. 11, 2008. The gallery has announced it plans to close by the end of the year. Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- After more than 40 years, the gallery famous for representing artists like Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and Sherrie Levine has announced that it will close by the end of December.
Metro Pictures Gallery announced Sunday that it would be closing toward the end of 2021 in an email that cited a demanding year of pandemic-driven programming and the anticipated arrival of a very different art world.
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