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Ida Applebroog Ida Applebroog
Artforum Oct 01, 2025
The title of this exhibition by Ida Applebroog (1929–2023), “You what?”—an expression that is both incredulous and sarcastic—fully encapsulates the artist’s spirit and bemused astonishment at our ongoing societal problems. The paintings on display were from the 1980s and early ’90s, when her art took on more overtly political and/or feminist topics, such as women’s reproductive rights, the endless onslaught of needless wars, lying politicians, and egregious abuses of power—issues that sadly remain unresolved, as if life had simply stood still. For me, entering Ronald Feldman Gallery—which, in its early days, represented a spate of politically engaged artists, including Leon Golub and Komar and Melamid—was like stepping into a time machine. Some of these works, which appeared in the March 1990 issue of Artforum with painter Mira Schor’s seminal text on the artist, were already quite familiar to me (I was the magazine’s editor in chief at the time and made Applebroog that month’s cover girl). Here, I found these older pieces to be just as fresh, current, and incisive now as they were then.
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