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A New Exhibition Turns the Lens on Mainstream Media

The news media is a constant source of praise and criticism, evolving with the times yet leaving itself vulnerable for mockery and outrage. In turn, artists have been using the media as an outlet to provide their own commentary on how it presents itself to mainstream audiences. An upcoming exhibition at The Getty Center in Los Angeles called Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media will present the works of 17 artists who use still images and video to explore what they see and consume on a daily basis. Arpad Kovacs, curator of the exhibition, says he drew inspiration from the works of Donald Blumberg, Robert Heinecken and especially the Modern History works by Sarah Charlesworth which looks into the news coverage of the kidnapping of then Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in the late 1970s.”She did a few takes on this and the one that we have looks specially at the Vatican newspapers coverage of this event, of this tragedy and of this detailed consciousness at the time,” Kovacs says about her work.

 

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