I recommend the New Museum of Contemporary Art's current exhibition to anyone now anticipating my book. Pinpointing the year 1993 as it's pivotal moment "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" brings out many of the seminal works of that early '90s era, a number of which were featured in that year's (controversial as always) Whitney Biennial.
The fourth floor is spine tinglingly good with a Rudolf Stingel carpet, a Felix Gonzalez-Torres light bulb hang, some haunting Zoe Leonard studies of bygone era anatomical models and a Robert Gober prison window, installed eerily out of reach in a corner. Kristen Oppenheim's audio piece, staged at 303 Gallery, was one I missed at the time.
The curators hit all of the important co-ordinates as I remember the period, both in terms of the art being created and the intrepid galleries showing it.
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/nyc-1993-experimental-jet-set-trash-and-no-star
Through May 26, 2013.
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