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Three black pedestals display small framed pictures in square, triangular, and circular shapes against a white wall.

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Modernism is Dead, Long Live Modernism

Alfredo Jaar

1988

Medium
Three transparencies in three lightboxes with three mirrors
Dimensions
Overall: 50 × 204 × 24 in. (127 × 518.2 × 61 cm)
Accession number
2024.128a-f
Acquired
2024
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© Alfredo Jaar
Department
collection

About this work

Alfredo Jaar, Modernism is Dead, Long Live Modernism, 1988. Three transparencies in three lightboxes with three mirrors, overall: 50 × 204 × 24 in. (127 × 518.2 × 61 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.128a-f. © Alfredo Jaar

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