Janine Antoni
Ida Applebroog
Art Club 2000
Lutz Bacher
Alex Bag
Matthew Barney
Sadie Benning
Lina Bertucci
Nayland Blake
Gregg Bordowitz
Bureau
Donald Moffett
Marlene McCarty
Kathe Burkhart
Peter Cain
Larry Clark
Patricia Cronin
John Currin
Jessica Diamond
Mary Beth Edelson
Nicole Eisenman
Coco Fusco
Robert Gober
Nan Goldin
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Renee Green
Michael Joaquin Grey
Randolph Huff
Peter Halley
Ann Hamilton
David Hammons
Rachel Harrison
Todd Haynes
Derek Jarman
Mike Kelley
Karen Kilimnick
Byron Kim
Jutta Koether
Alix Lambert
Sean Landers
Annie Leibovitz
Glenn Ligon
Sarah Lucas
Paul McCarthy
Suzanne McClelland
John Miller
Frank Moore
Gabriel Orozco
Pepón Osorio
Elizabeth Peyton
Steven Pippin
Charles Ray
Jason Rhoades
Julia Scher
Andres Serrano
Cindy Sherman
Gary Simmons
Lorna Simpson
Rudolf Stingel
Lily van der Stokker
The Thing
Wolfgang Tillmans
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Nari Ward
Gillian Wearing
Jack Whitten
Hannah Wilke
Sue Williams
Andrea Zittel
Massimiliano Gioni
Gary Carrion-Murayari
Jenny Moore
Margot Norton
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. The exhibition looks at art made and exhibited in New York over the course of one year, providing a synchronic panorama in which established artists and emerging figures of the time are presented alongside the work of authors whose influence has since faded from the discussion. Works by Matthew Barney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Rirkrit Tiravanija and many more.
curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, Gary Carrion-
Murayari, Curator, Jenny Moore, Associate Curator, and Margot Norton, Assistant Curator.
New York, NY...“NYC 1993” looks at art made and exhibited in New York over the course of one year,
providing a synchronic panorama in which established artists and emerging figures of the time are
presented alongside the work of authors whose influence has since faded from the discussion. Centering
on the year 1993, the exhibition is conceived as a time capsule, an experiment in collective memory that
attempts to capture a specific moment at the intersection of art, pop culture, and politics. “NYC 1993:
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” will be on view at the New Museum from February 13–May
26, 2013.
The social and economic landscape of the early ’90s was
a cultural turning point both nationally and globally. Conflict
in Europe, attempts at peace in the Middle East, the AIDS
crisis, national debates on health care, gun control, and
gay rights, and caustic partisan politics served as both the
background and source material for a number of younger
artists who first came to prominence in 1993. At the same
time, an increasingly active international network of artists,
curators, and dealers contributed to a burgeoning global art
world, amplified by the nascent tools of digital information.
Twenty years later, it is time to reconsider the events,
debates, and histories that prompted dramatic changes in
art and culture. The Clinton inauguration, the first World
Trade Center bombing, the Waco siege, and the March on
Washington for Gay, Lesbian, and Bi Rights and Liberation,
and other flash point events all shaped new discussions
about social progress and political action. With this
backdrop, young artists from New York made their mark in major international exhibitions and artists from
Los Angeles, Britain, Italy, and Germany debuted in New York and provided a new texture to an already
dynamic scene.
“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” draws its subtitle from the eponymous album that
the New York rock band Sonic Youth recorded in 1993 and captures the complex exchange between
mainstream and underground culture across disciplines, which came to define the art of the era. The
New Museum’s exhibition will include a number of historical reconstructions of important installations
and exhibitions from 1993, while other works will be revisited and reinterpreted from the vantage point of
today—highlighting the ways in which certain actions, events, attitudes, and emotions reverberate towards
the present. These works will sketch out the intersection between art and the world at large that defined the
1990s and continues to shape artistic expression today.
The exhibition features over seventy-five artists and will span all five gallery floors of the New Museum.
It will also feature an installation of Nari Ward’s Amazing Grace in the Museum’s Studio 231 space
(January 16–April 21, 2013). The project was originally realized in 1993 in an abandoned fire station in
Harlem and will be reconstructed for the first time in NYC since its original installation. Iconic works by
then young New York artists like Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, and Sean Landers, will be featured
twenty years after their standout inclusion in the 1993 Venice Biennale and Whitney Biennials. They will
be presented alongside artists of earlier generations including Ida Applebroog, Mary Beth Edelson,
Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, and Cindy Sherman who produced some of their most powerful works in
1993. Photographic works by filmmakers Larry Clark and Todd Haynes provide insight into the creative
process for the iconic films they were working on at the time. The exhibition will also feature reconstructions
of major works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jason Rhoades, and other artists. Works by artists including
Gabriel Orozco, Byron Kim, and Julia Scher, among others, connect back to the New Museum’s own
exhibition history and address issues like globalism, new technology, and identity politics prevalent at the
time. A visual timeline of key events and images from 1993 will be presented on the Museum’s Fifth Floor.
Artists presented include: Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Art Club 2000, Lutz Bacher, Alex Bag, Matthew
Barney, Sadie Benning, Lina Bertucci, Nayland Blake, Gregg Bordowitz, Bureau (Donald Moffett and
Marlene McCarty), Kathe Burkhart, Peter Cain, Larry Clark, Patricia Cronin, John Currin, Jessica Diamond,
Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Coco Fusco, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
Renée Green, Michael Joaquin Grey with Randolph Huff, Peter Halley, Ann Hamilton, David Hammons,
Rachel Harrison, Todd Haynes, Derek Jarman, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnick, Byron Kim, Jutta Koether, Alix
Lambert, Sean Landers, Annie Leibovitz, Glenn Ligon, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Suzanne McClelland,
John Miller, Frank Moore, Gabriel Orozco, Pepón Osorio, Elizabeth Peyton, Steven Pippin, Charles Ray,
Jason Rhoades, Julia Scher, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Rudolf
Stingel, Lily van der Stokker, The Thing, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nari Ward, Gillian Wearing,
Jack Whitten, Hannah Wilke, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.
“NYC 1993” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, Gary Carrion-
Murayari, Curator, Jenny Moore, Associate Curator, and Margot Norton, Assistant Curator.
Catalogue
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with key historical texts from 1993 by
Francesco Bonami, Nicolas Bourriaud, Judith Butler, Laura Cottingham, Thelma Golden, and J. Hoberman.
The catalogue also includes reflections by Massimiliano Gioni, Megan Heuer, Jenny Moore, Margot Norton,
and Ethan Swan on the impact of this pivotal moment in American culture and a timeline of key events by
scholar Claire Lehmann.
Select Public Programs
Friday February 22, 7 PM
Get Weird: NYC 1993: An Evening with Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia
Cohosts of the best hip hop radio show of all time, Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia discuss New York
City circa 1993 through the lens of rap music.
Saturday February 23, 3 PM
“do it”: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Massimiliano Gioni in conversation, moderated by Kate Fowle
In 1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist started “do it,” an exhibition in progress that is now twenty years old. With
Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions and co-curator of “NYC 1993,” this
conversation will explore the project’s beginnings, its iterations, and its repercussions in the context of the
cultural and political developments of the early ’90s. Organized in collaboration with ICI as part of a series
of conversations on landmark exhibitions in 1993.
Friday March 1, 7 PM
Get Weird: Potty Mouth
Potty Mouth’s explorations of identity, politics, and friendship recall the tone of the early ’90s riot grrrl
movement with a distinct and charming viciousness.
Friday March 8, 7 PM
New Silent: The Internet Before the Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), email, and usenet groups...This event positions 1993 as the last era before
the popular web and explores the cultures and artists working in this early networked context.
The New Silent series is organized by Rhizome.
Support
Support for the exhibition is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
Additional funding is provided by Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-
Picasso para el Arte, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Fund.
The accompanying exhibition publication is made possible by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications
Fund at the New Museum.
About the New Museum
The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded
in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists
from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its
first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a
place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Image: Art Club 2000, Untitled (Conrans I), 1992–93. Chromogenic color print, 8 x 10 in (20.32 x 25.4 cm). Courtesy the artist and the American Fine Arts, Co., Inc.
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