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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984: A Decade of Media Appropriation

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first primarily multimedia historical survey, The Pictures Generation, takes its title from the moniker that sprung up for a group of artists working in New York during the late-’70s and early-’80s. This unofficial movement was encapsulated by the 1977 exhibition Pictures at alternative gallery Artists Space, which debuted work from the incubators of Buffalo’s Hallwalls and conceptual artist John Baldessari‘s classes at CalArts, outside of LA.
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This Morning’s Top 5 Cultural Stories

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1. The paperback version of James Frey’s Bright Shiny Morning contains a new passage that has Page Six wondering if he has some scandalous dirt of his nemesis Oprah on tape. [via NYP]

2. Art historians claim that Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by his artist friend Paul Gauguin with a razor. [via Guardian]

3. Woody Allen is trying to keep both Mia Farrow and Larry Flynt from taking the stand in his American Apparel lawsuit. [via NYDN]

4. Meet the man who advised Radiohead to break up — and his plan for keeping the music industry viable in the Internet Age. [via Irish Times]

5. The Met’s Charles Engelhard Court — part of the American wing once called “a rape of the park”— will reopen on May 19 after an extensive two-year renovation with 30 percent more room for displaying work. [via NYT]

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