“BLACK VOICES / BLACK MICROCOSMS”CFHILL Art SpaceStockholm, Sweden What the curator says: “There isn’t so much of a ‘theme’ for the show; the common threads are the links, cultural or otherwise, that we find throughout the African diaspora, ways in which we connect and differ, or come together to bridge gaps,” says curator Destinee Ross. “The […] More
15-year-old Rowan Briggs Smith from England has adapted the famous Kitchener ‘Britain Needs You’ wartime poster as her response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Using chalk as a medium, she drew two images which meet each other on the zebra crossing in front of the main building, one representing the school and the other the pupils […] More
“Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945”Whitney Museum of American Art What the museum says: “Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national […] More
“Outside Looking In: John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, and Wright Morris“Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University What the museum says: “This exhibition presents work by three American photographers in the Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University who used the camera to observe the public lives and, occasionally, the private spaces of others. German-born John Gutmann […] More
