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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Tony Oursler at the Met: “Studio" and "Climaxed"
MET: May 17, 2005–September 18, 2005
Modern Art, mezzanine galleries Inspired by Gustave Courbet’s The Artist’s Studio: A real allegory of a seven year phase in my artistic and moral life (1855), contemporary artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) created his own three-dimensional studio identical in size to Courbet’s painting. The mixed-media installation playfully merges the artist's professional and personal lives into a narrative fashioned as allegory. A second gallery holds "Climaxed," Mr. Oursler's most recent work. Accompanied by a related publication.