Artist Barbara Kruger‘s signature sans-serif slogans are being plastered all over Los Angeles this week as part of a new public art commission from the Frieze art fair, which is opening in the ...
Barbara Kruger is in the news. The feminist artist who came to prominence in the 1980s is having a major moment at the Venice Biennale, with her site specific work Untitled (Beginning/Middle/End) ...
Barbara Kruger has a way with words. Big, bold, often visually loud words. Kruger mixes exceptional graphic design skills with deep knowledge of the structural complexities of art and language, not to ...
In the two years since the election–yes, it’s been two years, somehow–a massive amount of art has been made about politics in America. But a Barbara Kruger piece from 1990, back when Donald Trump was ...
Barbara Kruger might not be a household name, but the artist’s signature graphic aesthetic is instantly familiar. Kruger’s bold, incisive style and her acidic wit is eminently on display in “Culture ...
Barbara Kruger returns to London this week with her first major solo exhibition in the capital in more than 20 years. Beyond the interior of the Kensington Gardens art space, the exhibition will ...
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There are more iconic years: 1945, which marked the end of a world war, and 1968, with its roiling protest movements. But 1990 also marked an important social and political moment. The Soviet Union ...
Supreme, the skateboard and apparel brand, very clearly appropriated the aesthetic of legendary conceptual artist Barbara Kruger. Now they are taking another designer to court for appropriating their ...
If she were judged by exposure alone, Barbara Kruger would be the most successful artist alive. Now 77, she came to fame by superimposing white Futura type on a red background over appropriated ...