"Aim High and Do Your Best" at Jersey City Museum
- Artist/Author/Producer: Robin Kahn
- Confronting Bodies: Jersey City Museum
- Dates of action: 5/26-8/28/93
- Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
- Description of the Art Work
- "Aim High and Do Your Best," Kahn's Installation of 60 small works, is a
humorous dissertation on growing up female. The pieces combine bits of
texts and isolated images lifted from catalogues and how-to manuals
written by flaccid experts; all her images are appropriated.
- Description of incident
- A sign was put up outside of the gallery advising parental or educational
guidance for children. The sign stated "A small number of drawings and
photographs in these exhibitions contain sexually graphic images, images
of explicit imagery of implied violence."
- Results of incident
- Sign remained outside of the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
Source: Village Voice,6/29/93 and museum publications
