It's a great time to take a trip to New York. Cindy Sherman's work appears in two shows this month: one at the Met and the other at MOMA. "The Pictures Generation" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several of Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills as well as earlier time-based studies created for Metro Pictures. The show also includes the work of Barbara Kruger and Richard Prince, colleagues in the quest to indict the image.
Sherman's piece, Untitled #43, is featured separately at the exhibition "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West" at the Museum of Modern Art. The images found here date back to photography's inception in the 1850s with works by Richard Avedon, whose controversial 1978 commission for the Amon Carter Museum portrayed some of the storied characters on the fringes of westward migration: truckers, coal miners, drifters, and other marginalized Americans.
