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Vik Muniz's collage 'George Stinney, Jr.' shows a mugshot of the titular figure, the youngest person in the United States to be sentenced to death in the 20th century. (Vik Muniz/VAGA, New York, NY) ...
'I'm just going to shake your hand, just to say I shook your hand,' said a fan who had walked up to artist Vik Muniz Wednesday night at Aperture Gallery's opening for Aperture Remix, an exhibition ...
Viewing the large photographs in the Vik Muniz exhibit Poetics of Perception can make your head spin. Yes, some of the pieces are dazzling, but the juxtapositions that are involved in the ...
It's what's on the backside that counts. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz creates replicas of the backs of renowned paintings like the Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pearl Earring. The artist's replicas are ...
In his current show at Sikkema Jenkins, Vik Muniz repurposes iconic American images with shredded American currency. The Bald Eagle, Amelia Earhart, Sioux Chief Tashunka, and Frederick Douglas, among ...
A gallery at the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague now appears in the midst of installation, with paintings propped against the walls, the backs of their frames exposed to visitors.
There is always a great story behind the photographs of Vik Muniz, and for his latest series, "Pictures of Junk," the story is about heavy lifting and gunfire. Let's start with the gunfire. The ...
Bid now on Woods in November, after Albert Renger-Patzsch, from Pictures of Paper by Vik Muniz. View a wide Variety of artworks by Vik Muniz, now available for sale on artnet Auctions.
A new exhibit at The Hague’s Mauritshuis features Vik Muniz’s re-created backsides of masterworks such as Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” ...
High in a Rio favela, Vik Muniz has built Escola Vidigal, an institution that offers free arts-oriented classes to local children, a program he hopes will change the direction of their lives.
News about Vik Muniz, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.