backstory: Getting to see it once again
Here’s the other thing that was really great about seeing that show last night. Since the Neuberger exhibition a few years ago covered the entirety of her two earliest bodies of work—American People and Black Light—being in the first four rooms of the retrospective was like stepping back into the show Thom Collins and I co-curated for Faith all over again. There were all the works that we had spent so much time with; that we gathered, conserved, photographed, framed, and arranged in the galleries of the Neuberger; and that we got to live with for several months. Faith’s self-portrait. Between Friends, the first in the American People series that we purchased at that time and have loaned to the New Museum show. Big Black. Die. The Flag is Bleeding. For the Women’s House. All of them. It’s not often you get to see your show again over a decade later, even if it’s in another location. Thanks, New Museum.
Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director
Neuberger Museum of Art
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