There's a text on the wall telling how a doctor attempted to talk to a man's head after it had just been cut off by the guillotine.
The Met agreed on Wednesday to add a few sentences to the text on the wall, and to direct patrons to Barbara Will's "Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma," published last fall.
Facing criticism from Alan Dershowitz, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, and New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, among others, the Met had agreed to add a few sentences to the text on the wall that would address Stein's collaborationist activities, and said it would direct patrons to Barbara Will's "Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma".
Now the family of John and Anna Jaffe want it back – but the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds Chaux-de-Fonds Chaux-de-Fonds, offerinsiststell the story of its provenance in a special gallery text on the will instead.
Actually, as a text on the wall informs, Greek women had three basic outfits to choose from: the chiton, a plain chemise, worn floor-length; the peplos, a chemise with a deep overhang of cloth to the waist; and the himation, a large cloak, similar to the Roman toga, that could be draped in many ways.
Curious, I looked more closely at the wallpaper, then at the text on the wall, which stated: An Te Liu's mesmerizing design entitled "Pattern Language I: Levittown" is evidence that custom wallpaper has become an important medium in the art world.
There is text on the walls next to a procession of vitrine vignettes illustrating the styles of decades past, with mannequins attired in painfully stereotypical ensembles.
Experiencing so many of Judd's pieces, grouped together in these massive artillery sheds (some still with text on the walls in German, from when they were home to PoWs), is unlike anything else you've seen.
It employs a simple white set with text on the walls, including quotes from the crisis and eventually displays of names of the dead.
They employ lighting and video and text on the walls (such as a creepy display of reviews posted online about various prostitutes) to enliven the you-are-there proceedings.
Paglen has long explored the ways in which technology helps keep liberty suppressed, and his presentation of the AI visuals seems to want to warn us of our impending doom, but the elegance and slickness of his aesthetics and the tastefully tony gallery hang (no text on the walls, please!) subsume any lingering didacticism.
