{"data":{"id":"29487","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":29487,"topgoose_id":18029,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":29487,"title":"Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971","display_artist_text":"Hans Haacke","display_date":"1971","accession_number":"2007.148a-gg","dimensions":"Dimensions variable","medium":"9 photostats, 142 gelatin silver prints, and 142 photocopies","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Purchased jointly by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund and the Painting and Sculpture Committee, and the Fundació Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"2/2","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Haacke, \u003cem\u003eShapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971\u003c/em\u003e, 1971. 9 photostats, 142 gelatin silver prints, and 142 photocopies, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchased jointly by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund and the Painting and Sculpture Committee, and the Fundació Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona 2007.148a-gg. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of institutional critique, Hans Haacke’s \u003ci\u003eShapolsky et al Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, A Real Time Social System as of May 1, 1971 \u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003echronicles the fraudulent activities of one of New York City’s largest slumlords over the course of two decades. The work comprises 146 photographs of Manhattan apartment buildings, mostly tenements; maps of Harlem and the Lower East Side; photographs and charts documenting real estate transactions; and texts with information about the location, ownership structure, and financial histories of the buildings. Haacke culled all of his data from the public record, adapting a neutral presentational style that resembles various contemporaneous projects in Conceptual art. \u003ci\u003eShapolsky et al. \u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003ewas to be part of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in the spring of 1971, but the show was cancelled six weeks before its scheduled opening.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Row of six tenement building facades with fire escapes and a person walking past one.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:19:39.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:26.517-05:00","images":[{"id":108149,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/29487/2007_148i_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"10735","type":"artist"}]}}}}