Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry
1979 · Two-channel video, color, sound; 6 min. 26 sec. loop
Art Institute of Chicago
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Dara Birnbaum
1946–2025
WA-00008421
New York, NY, USA
New Media
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
20
Assets Indexed
10
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
70%
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Authority Records (1)
Field Verification (7 fields)
4 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- Death yearArtsy + Unknown· 93%✓
- LocationArtsy + Gallery Generic· 85%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 93%✓
- DeceasedArtsy· 93%✓
- BiographyAi Generated + Unknown· 52%
- NationalityArtsy· 93%
- Primary mediumUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (3)
- Marian-GoodmanTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Paula-CooperTier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%
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Artworks (2)
Artwork sources (3)
2 published of 10 catalogued · 8 with image
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
- + 1 more source · 8 catalogued, not yet published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 1978 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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