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Eating the Wall Street Journal (new version)
2019 · Performance
Museum of Modern Art
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Pope.L
Artist
PaintingConceptual ArtPerformance ArtInstitutional Critique
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
343
Works in Collection
680
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80%
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- • Conceptual Art
- • Performance Art
- • Institutional Critique
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Pope.L was an American performance and conceptual artist whose practice emerged from African American artistic traditions and legacies of institutional critique. Working across performance, video, installation, and drawing, he created socially engaged works that addressed race, embodiment, and systemic inequality through absurdist humor and unflinching directness. His performances often positioned his own body as a site of interrogation within public space and architectural systems.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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