“People would answer yes or no to a question that I put up. And for about 16 years after that, I was not invited to participate in anything at the Museum of Modern Art.”
– Conceptual artist
Hans Haacke, recalling
Poll of MoMA Visitors (1970), an installation that asked museum visitors to weigh in on political issues (some involving MoMA patrons). The subject of a generous profile by
M.H. Miller, Haacke discusses his careerlong
institutional critique—and the chilly reception he received from art world powerbrokers.
