Following the death of Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, better known as Jerry Gogosian, much of the public discussion focused on the circumstances of her death rather than the ideas she spent years articulating through her work. This essay examines Helphenstein’s place within a broader history of institutional critique, arguing that the Jerry Gogosian project adapted that tradition to the conditions of social media and the contemporary attention economy.
Drawing on her final interviews, podcasts, social media posts, and artworks, the essay explores Helphenstein’s reflections on beauty, branding, conformity, public identity, and the pressures of life lived online. It also considers her relationship to earlier figures such as Hans Haacke and Andrea Fraser, whose investigations of institutional power anticipated many of the questions she would later confront through digital media.
Posted on March 2, 2024, 2:21 PM, by jfriedman, under
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While the Whitney Museum of American Art’s webpage still defines the Whitney Biennial as “the longest-running survey of American art” (emphasis added), this year’s eighty-first installment will expand its reach well beyond the United States. The show includes artists from Chile, Britain, Korea, Indonesia, Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Lebanon, Singapore, Mongolia, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, India, Mexico, and China. This mad dash for inclusivity is consistent with the theme of the 2024 Venice Biennale, “Foreigners Everywhere,” but, whereas Venice’s has always been an international affair, the Whitney’s has always been national, making it a radical departure.
On the recent spat between the critic Jerry Saltz & the artist Refik Anadol.
Xavier Hufkens gallery (Brussels) recently published a clip of an interview I conducted with Los Angeles-based artist Evan Holloway. The interview was conducted on the occasion of his upcoming exhibition Scry if you want to which runs February 10 through April 1, 2023. We discussed work which ranges from abstract relief paintings Enochian Tablets based in on the writings of 16th […]
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My review of the first book about the American art and culture critic Dave Hickey is out in Atheneum Review. Click on the image below to read the full text. Oppenheimer is the first writer to dedicate an entire book to Dave Hickey, who is now in his early eighties. Although Hickey made occasional public […]
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