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April 18, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Print/Out

Print/Out: General Idea

Posted by Kim Conaty, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

General Idea. Magi© Bullet. 1992. Installation of custom-shaped Mylar balloons, dimensions variable with installation. Edition: three. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mark Krayenhoff. © 2012 General Idea. Installation view of Print/Out at The Museum of Modern Art, 2012. Photo: John Wronn

“Visitors are invited to take balloons that have floated to the ground.”

Now that’s a label you don’t typically see on the walls of a museum! Magi© Bullet (1992), by the Canadian artist’s group General Idea, is an installation of silver helium balloons that fills the ceiling of an exhibition space.

Print/Out: Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Posted by Kim Conaty, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

Felix Gonzalez-Torres. “Untitled.” 1991. Billboard, dimensions vary with installation. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, New York. Installation view at 11th Avenue and 38th Street, Manhattan (February 20–March 18, 2012), as part of Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, February 19–May 14, 2012. Photo by David Allison

Perhaps you were one of the lucky ones to stumble across these billboards in New York City over the last several weeks?

Felix Gonzalez-Torres. “Untitled.” 1991. Billboard, dimensions vary with installation. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, New York. Installation view at Neptune Avenue and Guider Avenue, Brooklyn (February 20–March 18, 2012), as part of Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, February 19–May 14, 2012. Photo by David Allison

Between February 20 and March 18, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (1991) peppered the New York skyline, on six billboards throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.