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Modern Art Monday Presents: Christine Tien Wang’s History Meme

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What happens when something designed to disappear into the endless scroll of the Internet is turned into a large, meticulously painted work of art? That’s one of the questions behind Christine Tien Wang’s History Meme (2022 ) an acrylic painting that manages to be funny, unsettling, and surprisingly thoughtful all at once.

Measuring 86 by 72 inches, History Meme is part of Wang’s ongoing practice of translating Internet memes into paintings. The work was first exhibited in her 2022 show fake stupid, queen of cringe at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Berlin, and was later included in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles exhibition Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, which is where this photo was taken. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Christine Tien Wang’s History Meme →

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Give Us Mom!!! Billboard By Nora Turato On The High Line

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The latest installation on the High Line Billboard delivers a message that feels both humorous and surprisingly heartfelt. Created by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato, Give Us Mom!!! debuted just before Mother’s Day in the High Line-adjacent park at 18th Street and 10th Avenue, offering a bold plea for comfort and care amid the chaos of city life.

The billboard is impossible to miss: bright yellow Comic Sans-style lettering spelling out “GIVE US MOM!!!” against a flat blue background. The simple phrase transforms the familiar figure of “mom” into a symbol of nurturing, protection, and emotional support in a world that often feels fast-paced, distracted, and overwhelming. Borrowing the visual language of advertising, Turato turns a public billboard into an unexpectedly tender call for connection.
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Andi LaVine Arnovitz: What We Bring

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Andi LaVine Arnovitz (b. 1959) transformed her wedding dress, handmade by her grandmother, into the sculpture What We Bring (2023). Thousands of laser-cut women’s names – all 2,611 entries found on the Jewish women’s archive website at the time of making – fill the space that the artist’s body once occupied and spill out to form a teeming train.

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Love is All Around: Yoni Alter’s Love Continuum in Union Square

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Just in time for peak summer vibes, Union Square has a new landmark that’s equal parts art and affirmation. Love Continuum (2024), a bold and brilliant public sculpture by London-based artist Yoni Alter, is currently turning heads — and perspectives — on University Place between 13th and 14th Streets.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Ed Ruscha, Wen Out For Cigrets

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The phrase immortalized on this canvases, Wen Out For Cigrets (1985), refers to an American cultural trope in which a father leaves the house to buy cigarettes and never returns, abandoning his family.

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