18-11-2016 16:23 via theartnewspaper.com

Artist turns Whitney work upside down after election

The day after the US presidential election on 8 November, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York received an unorthodox request from the artist Annette Lemieux. She asked if curators might be willing to turn her installation, Left Right Left Right (1995)which had been on show there since Aprilupside down. Less than a week later, they did.
It was an impulse, Lemieux says. I was looking at the image right side up and it felt somehow wrong, because I, like many people, felt defeated. The w
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