Artnet

Rabble-Rousing Artist Barbara Kruger on Why She’s Plastering LA’s Buildings With Questions ‘About What It Means to Live Another Day’

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 ...
Artnet

Does Barbara Kruger’s New Relevance in a Post-Truth America Mean Her Market Is Heating Up, Too? We Looked Into the Data

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) ...
Yahoo

Review: In a smashing new LACMA retrospective, Barbara Kruger probes the modern media maelstrom

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 ...
Fast Company

Barbara Kruger was making the art we need today in 1990

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 ...
The Atlantic

Artist Barbara Kruger Is Not Cool with the 'Totally Uncool Jokers' at Supreme

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 ...
Forbes

Before Twitter There Was Barbara Kruger – But Social Media Still Can’t Match The Veteran Conceptual Artist

At Art Basel Miami Beach in 2012, a prominent Los Angeles gallery showed a large digital print on vinyl comprising two boldface words: “GREEDY SCHMUCK”. Unmistakably the creation of American ...
The Forward

In this brilliant exhibit, you can’t look at the art unless you let it look at you

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. At first glance ...
Yahoo

Barbara Kruger takes London: American artist back in town in a big way

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 ...
The Stanford Daily

In conversation: Barbara Kruger and Alexander Nemerov

On the evening of May 16, Barbara Kruger and Alexander Nemerov graced the stage of Cemex Auditorium with a discussion about Kruger’s work and its social implications. The talk is a part of The Ethics ...
Los Angeles Times

In advance of the midterms, Barbara Kruger reprises MOCA mural that asks ‘Who is beyond the law?’

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Review: Artist Barbara Kruger turns a bland building into a screaming statement. Time to listen up

Barbara Kruger is yelling. In an extraordinary new Hollywood mural, the artist who is known for often blunt, declarative works that use plain language and sharp graphic design in ruminative ways has ...