Artist Barbara Kruger Covers Hirshhorn Lobby With ‘Belief+Doubt’

THE WASHINGTON POST
By DeNeen L. Brown

WASHINGTON DC---Barbara Kruger’s ‘Belief+Doubt’ is site-specific not just to the Hirshhorn lobby but in its proximity to power: ‘It is a museum, but it is also in D.C.,’ she says. In the exhibit, which runs through Dec. 31, 2014, words confront museum visitors, confounding them, prompting them to pause in a harried world to interpret what the artist has rendered in an unexpected gallery. Kruger, whom one artist called “the poet laureate of the age of spectacle,” says the exhibit raises questions about desire, money, faith and power. Doubt is good, Kruger says. “Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.”[link]