Monday, October 19, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1994)

Guerrilla Girls
10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment
1994
screenprint (poster)
Dallas Museum of Art

Steven Weinberg
Untitled
1994
glass
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Nan Goldin
Noa dressing for the Venus Show at Shogun Club, Tokyo
1994
C-print
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Nan Goldin
Tomoyuki in front of TV, Tokyo
1994
C-print
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Svetlana Kopystiansky
Untitled
1994
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Issey Miyake
Dress
1994
polyester
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Becky Cohen
Apple Espalier, Potager du Roi, Versailles
1994
gelatin silver print
San Diego Museum of Art

James Esber
Execution
1994
acrylic paint and fabric collage on canvas
San Jose Museum of Art

Emilio Falero
Trompe-l'oeil Ecce Homo
1994
oil on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Ann Newdigate
The first to arrive were some unwelcome memories.
What did you expect?

1994
wool tapestry
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Arnold Zageris
Blue Wall, Torngat Mountains, Labrador
1994
C-print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Eduardo Iglesias Brickles
Apasionadamente
1994
color woodblock print
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Oleg Kudryashov
Icon Composition
1994
hand-colored etching
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Jörg Immendorff
Sonnentor
1994
oil on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Lucio Pozzi
Aphrodite
1994
watercolor on paper
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Alen MacWeeney
Boy with Piebalds, Ballinasloe Horsefair, Galway
1994
C-print
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

from Part One of The Age of Anxiety

Quant was thinking:
     My deuce, my double, my dear image,
     Is it lively there, that land of glass
     Where song is a grimace, sound logic
     A suite of gestures? You seem amused.
     How well and witty when you wake up,
     How glad and good when you go to bed,
     Do you feel, my friend? What flavor has 
     That liquor you lift with your left hand;
     Is it cold by contrast, cool as this
     For a soiled soul; does your self like mine
     Taste of untruth? Tell me, what are you
     Hiding in your heart, some angel face,
     Some shadowy she who shares in my absence,
     Enjoys my jokes? I'm jealous, surely,
     Nicer myself (though not as honest),
     The marked man of romantic thrillers
     Whose brow bears the brand of a winter
     No priest can explain, the poet disguised,
     Thinking over things in thieves' kitchens,
     Wanted by the waste, whom women's love
     Or his own silhouette might all too soon
     Betray to its tortures. I'll track you down,
     I'll make you confess how much you know who
     View my vices with a valet's slight
     But shameless shrug, the Schadenfreude
     Of cooks at keyholes. Old comrade, tell me
     The lie of my lifetime but look me up in
     Your good graces; agree to be friends
     Till our deaths differ; drink, strange future, 
     To your neighbor now.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)