The New York Times Reviews Barbara Kruger

The Times’s co–chief art critic Roberta Smith reviews Kruger’s two concurrent immersive shows in New York, now open at The Museum of Modern Art and our 19th Street gallery.

“[Kruger’s] word-image combinations,” Smith writes, “tell dire truths about society, history and our own mind-sets that Kruger refuses, rightly, to call ‘political art.’ Her words tap into our interior lives and challenge our often naïve assumptions about both our own and the world’s machinations.”

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The Guardian Interviews Barbara Kruger

The artist spoke to The Guardian about the works on view at our New York gallery: “My work has consistently focused on the vulnerability of bodies. Of how power is threaded through cultures. On how the choreographies of hierarchies and capital determine who lives and who dies, who is kissed and who is slapped, who is praised and who is punished.”

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Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.

Through January 2, 2023
New York- The Museum of Modern Art

Kruger’s large-scale commission for MoMA envelops The Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium, tapping into the artist’s long-standing interest in architecture to immerse viewers in a thought-provoking environment that offers multiple points of entry and perspective.

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Barbara Kruger
Through August 12, 2022
New York | 519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street
Watch a filmed trailer of our current presentation of Kruger’s work, in which the artist utilizes images, text, and technology as tools of communication to reveal and question established power structures and social constructs.

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