--- title: 2025_Artforum_Applebroog date: 2025-10-10T13:53:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-artforum-applebroog" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Ida Applebroog](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/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. [**Read more here.**](https://www.artforum.com/events/ida-applebroog-ronald-feldman-review-1234735548/) Related News & Press Jun 14, 2025 [ ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1979 80 20](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-1979-80_20_2025-06-16-154619_vpua.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-nyt-ukeles) Jun 14, 2025 New York Times [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) [The ’70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to ‘Garbage Men’](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-nyt-ukeles) Jun 06, 2025 [ ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1979 80 08](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-1979-80_08.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-artnewspaper-ukeles) Jun 06, 2025 The Art Newspaper [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) [Documentary chronicles decades of work by New York ‘maintenance artist’ Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-artnewspaper-ukeles) Apr 01, 2025 [ ![Applebroog shake 1980 2](/assets/exhibition_images/Applebroog-shake-1980_2_2025-04-02-195615_vwhg.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-brooklyn-rail-applebroog) Apr 01, 2025 Brooklyn Rail [Ida Applebroog](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/ida-applebroog-) [Ida Applebroog: You what?](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-brooklyn-rail-applebroog) Feb 10, 2025 [ ![Wexler Sheathing the Rift 2014 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Wexler-Sheathing-the-Rift-2014_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-allanwexler-hyperallergic) Feb 10, 2025 Hyperallergic [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [Allan Wexler Magnifies the Absurdity of the Everyday](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-allanwexler-hyperallergic) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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