Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Blue Sail
- Artist name
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Hans Haacke
- Date created
- 1964-1965
- Classification
- installation
- Medium
- chiffon, oscillating fan, fishing weights, and thread
- Dimensions
- 132 × 128 in. (335.3 × 325.1 cm)
- Date acquired
- 2005
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase - Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2005.185.A-B
- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.
A pioneer of institutional critique, artist Hans Haacke creates conceptual works that expose connections among money, art, and politics. Haacke recounts the realizations that inspired him to explore the relationships between art and the outside world, as in his SFMOMA collection work News (1969).
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