Our favorite Modern Wing artworks
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Published: May 11, 2009
Photograph: Martha Williams
Photograph: Martha Williams
Robert Gober, Untitled, 1989–96. Gober’s installation includes his Hanging Man/Sleeping Man wallpaper, which bears a pattern of dozing white men and lynched black men. The devastating piece suggests we can’t hide from society’s awful truths—not even in our own living rooms.
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