Artist: Barbara Kruger
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Transit Authority
Materials: Printed Pastic
Date: 2017
Dimensions: 3.375" w x 2.125" H
Condition: Mint
Edited version of article from The New York Times:
Artist Barbara Kruger’s bold lettering has adorned buses, warehouses, magazine covers, albums, train stations and here, New York City subway payment cards.
In November, 2017 50,000 limited-edition MetroCards with Ms. Kruger’s pointed questions emblazoned on the back were released at four stations around the city in conjunction with a series of site-specific works Kruger created for the Performa Biennial.
The two sets of cards each contain questions that Ms. Kruger has asked in artwork throughout her career. “Who is healed? Who is housed? Who is silent? Who speaks?” is similar to part of a 1991 work, “Untitled (Questions).” “Whose values?” was printed on a Newsweek cover in 1992, as a response to Dan Quayle’s emphasis on family values during his vice-presidential campaign. “These issues of power and control and physical damage and death and predation are ages old,” Ms. Kruger said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “I wish some of these issues would become archaic.”