This exhibition was part of a two-part show at both PS.1 and The Clocktower intended to examine the interweaving of art and politics in post-War art. An important element of the historical section was a reconstruction of several installations made by the Independent Group in London in the early 50s. This was a group of British artists and architects responding to a sudden flood of American popular culture in the years of the nuclear tests and the Korean War. I was asked to consider how my generation of artists, working in New York, were responding to the explosive growth of mass media and manipulative meanness of public politics in the Reagan/Thatcher years. In the accompanying essay I wrote a first draft of a history of what came to be called the “Pictures Generation.”