Field Note, New York
Dear Painter, Paint for Me
Walking home today, I passed a man making air quotes around the word “charity” as he spoke to his donors. That gesture felt like the city in miniature: self-aware, performative, complicit and sincere all at once.
The painting you’re looking at is at MoMA. Untitled from Martin Kippenberger’s 1981 series Dear Painter, Paint for Me. Kippenberger, known for …
