Ffarrabas became a public-facing artist in the 1960s, when New York City was the epicenter of the experimental and creative laboratory known as Fluxus, one of the major postmodernist art communities.

Deborah Kass created the Art History Paintings out of frustration ... The whole series plays with David Salle’s well-known postmodernist painting series from the 1980s in which he juxtaposed ...