{"id":5063,"date":"2026-06-15T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:29:16","slug":"the-artist-behind-jerry-gogosian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=5063","title":{"rendered":"The artist behind Jerry Gogosian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" autoplay controls muted src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/910897C4-8A8F-4DEA-928D-C6B498AB4503segment_video_2.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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. 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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full essay in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/Read the full essay in Whitehot Magazine.\">Whitehot Magazine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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