Call the White House by Donald Moffett
Art Institute of Chicago

Call the White House

Donald Moffett · 1990

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold through Alexander Gray Associates, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 8, 2025.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Vancouver, Canada, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Strange Ways Here We Come, Nov. 16–Dec. 22, 1990, no cat. no.
  • Ridgefield, CT, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Art of Advocacy, May 18–Sept. 22, 1991, no cat. no.
  • Clinton, NY, Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, Jan. 20–Mar. 15, 1992, no cat. no.; Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, Jun. 19– Aug. 8, 1992; Kutztown, PA, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Sept. 8– Oct. 6, 1992; Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Oct. 29, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993; Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art, Feb. 12–Apr. 4, 1993; Columbia, SC, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, May 15–July 15, 1993; Bloomington, IN, Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Sept. 3–Oct. 23, 1993; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Nov. 6–Dec. 23, 1993; New York, The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Jan. 19–Mar. 5, 1994.
  • Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Matrix 134, Power Up: Reassembled Speech, Interlocking Sister Corita and Donald Moffett, Sept. 14–Nov. 16, 1997, no cat. no.; Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, as Power Up: Sister Corita and Donald Moffett, Interlocking, Feb. 6–Apr. 2, 2000.
  • Cambridge, MA, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, ACT Up New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987–1993, Oct. 15–Dec. 23, 2009., no cat.; New York, White Columns, Sept. 9–Oct. 23, 2010.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, This Will Have Been: Art Love and Politics in the 1980s, Feb. 11–June 3, 2012, no cat. no.; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, June 30–Sept. 30, 2012; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nov. 15, 2012-Mar. 3, 2013.
  • Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Feb. 8–May 17, 2015, not in cat.; Savannah, GA, Telfair Museums, Jepson Center, June 12–Sept. 20, 2015; Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Oct. 17, 2015–Jan. 31, 2016; Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 21–May 15, 2016 (Blanton only.)
  • Sandvika, Norway, Henie Onstad Art Center, Every Moment Counts—AIDS and its Feelings, Feb. 18–May 22, 2022, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

  • Scott Watson, Strange Ways Here We Come: Félix González-Torres, Donald Moffett, exh. cat. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1990), 31, 35 (color ill.).
  • Nicholas Africano, The Art of Advocacy, exh. cat. (Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991), 5 (errata), 23 (ill.), 34.
  • Robert Atkins, Thomas W. Sokolowski, et al., From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS, exh. cat. (New York: Independent Curators Inc., 1991), 46 (ill.), 70.
  • Julie Ault, Power Up: Sister Corita and Donald Moffett Interlocking, exh. phamplet. (Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 2000), n.p.
  • Elizabeth A. T Smith and Jim Lewis, Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002), 41 (color ill.).
  • Ara H. Merjian, “ACT UP New York” frieze 129 (March 2010): 120.
  • Oliver Cassel, Valerie, Bill Arning, and Douglas Crimp, Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein, exh. cat. (New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2011), 37 (color ill.).
  • Helen Molesworth, Johanna Burton, and Claire Grace, This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012), 207, 210-211 (ill.), 212.
  • Anonymous Author, "'This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s' at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago" Huffington Post, March 15, 2012, n.p., https://www.huffpost.com/entry/this-will-have-been-art_n_1345497
  • Jason Foumberg, "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980's Museum of
  • Contemporary Art Chicago" frieze 150 (October 2012): 248.
  • Ana María Bresciani and Tommaso Speretta, Every Moment Counts—AIDS and its Feelings, exh. cat. (Sandvika, Norway: Henie Onstad Art Center, 2022), 35 (color ill.), 36-37 (color ill.), 162 (color ill.).

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