Friday, October 23, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1998)

Melissa Ann Pinney
Washroom, Disney World
1998
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

David Salle
To be Titled #2
1998
oil and acrylic on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Frank Stella
Cantahar
1998
lithograph, screenprint, etching, engraving and aquatint
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Gerhard Richter
Orchid I
1998
offset-print between plexiglas plates
Dallas Museum of Art

Katy Schneider
Family Portrait
1998
oil on panel
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Maria Porges
The Virtues and Vices of History
1998
wax, wood, plexiglas
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Ole Jørgen Ness
Portrait
1998
oil on canvas
Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo

Neo Rauch
Choice
1998
oil on canvas
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Claire Van Vliet
Clay Cliffs
1998
vitreograph print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Comme des Garçons (Japan)
Jacket and Asymmetrical Vest
1998
wool twill and cotton
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Comme des Garçons (Japan)
Jacket and Asymmetrical Vest - detail
1998
wool twill and cotton
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Mary Heilmann
21st century Fox
1998
color etching
San Diego Museum of Art, California

James Doolin
Psychic
1998
oil on canvas
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Eldon Garnet
Breathless #3
1998
C-print
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Victor Landweber
Auduboniana: Passenger Pigeon,
Federal Building, Oakland CA

1998
pigment print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Katherine Knight
Erica and Bubble
1998
gelatin silver print
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario

from Part One of The Age of Anxiety

     
But now the radio, suddenly breaking in with its banal noises upon their separate senses of themselves, by compelling them to pay attention to a common world of great slaughter and much sorrow, began, without their knowledge, to draw these four strangers closer to each other. For in response to its official doctored message:

     Now the news. Night raids on
     Five cities. Fires started.
     Pressure applied by pincer movement
     In threatening thrust. Third Division
     Enlarges the beachhead. Lucky charm
     Saves sniper. Sabotage hinted
     In steel-mill stoppage. Strong point held
     By fanatical Nazis. Canal crossed
     By heroic marines. Rochester barber
     Fools foe. Finns ignore
     Peace feeler. Pope condemns
     Axis excesses. Underground
     Blows up bridge. Thibetan prayer-wheels
     Revolve for victory. Vital crossroads
     Taken by tanks. Trend to the left
     Forecast by Congressman. Cruiser sunk
     In Valdivian Deep. Doomed sailors
     Play poker. Reporter killed. 

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)