Repository 96: Word for Word | Text Artists Tee Off in Dueling Museum Retrospectives

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Repository 96: Word for Word | Text Artists Tee Off in Dueling Museum Retrospectives

This month launches the retrospective of two artists, both enamored with words. Robert Indiana’s “Love” paintings launched a thousand “Love” products in the late 60’s, while Christopher Wool’s au courant fuck you paintings invoke the hater in all of us. The former has his very first retrospective at the Whitney through January, and the latter is at the Guggenheim also through January. Robert Indiana is of Pop Art fame – he launched his career in the thick of the Lichtenstein/Warhol…