Desensitized culture or no desensitized culture, Robert Gober and his artworks have the power to disconcert. Many of us have seen the historical traumas that Gober confronts--urban blight, the AIDS ...

Robert Gober, “Icarus” (1967) graphite on spiral-edged paper, 12 x 9 inches; 31 x 23 cm (© Robert Gober, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) A man with wings, plumed and outstretched, is in full ascension ...

If Jeff Koons at the Whitney was the quintessential summer of 2014 show, Robert Gober at MoMA will represent this fall’s quintessential show. The suburban Surrealist and the crown prince of cringe, ...

Welcome back, Mr. Gober. This is the artist’s first New York exhibition since 2014, when the Museum of Modern Art presented The Heart is Not a Metaphor. He returns with many recurring images and ...

Robert Gober has won the 'culture war,' and “The Heart Is Not a Metaphor,” his chunky, elaborate, story-telling retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, is his victory lap. Gober ...

A siegelike mindset — unspeakably isolated, sleepwalking, wounded, monomaniacally self-enclosed, but finally atoning — inhabits Robert Gober’s exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery. The show’s title ...

Today, press and select viewers got a first glimpse at Robert Gober’s first U.S. retrospective, "A Heart Is Not a Metaphor," which opens at MoMA on October 4. The massive undertaking was not just a ...

The Hammer Museum in Westwood will honor artist Robert Gober and playwright Tony Kushner at its 11th annual gala, scheduled to take place Oct. 5. Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, are co-chairing ...

19 x 9.4 x 9.4 cm. (7.5 x 3.7 x 3.7 in.) Toronto, Art Gallery of York University; Calgary, Nickle Arts Museum; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Meeting Place: Robert Gober, Liz Magor, Juan Muñoz, September ...

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