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‘We Have to Help Them Be Useful’: Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko Explains How Existing Monuments Can Be Made to Speak for the Voiceless
by Eliana Willis 19 March 2020, 18:28
In the past decade, a public reckoning has unfolded over monuments in the United States, about who gets honored and why, and whether statues to figures such as Confederate generals should be removed from display altogether. The Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko has spent his career addressing these thorny subjects, often by appropriating the objects themselves. Civil […] More
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‘How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?’: A Star-Studded Online Show Weighs the Triviality—and Importance—of Art in a Crisis
by Eliana Willis 18 March 2020, 19:02
As galleries and museums across the US shuttered this week in a desperate attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, the writer-curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen spent the weekend putting together a group show responding to the crisis—one that would be hosted not in a white walled gallery, but online. On Monday, […] More
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Artist Ebony G. Patterson’s Lush and Provocative Garden Installation in North Carolina Is a Delight for the Eyes—See It Here
by Eliana Willis 18 March 2020, 18:46
“Ebony G. Patterson: … while the dew is still on the roses… ”Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina What the museum says: Jamaican-born artist Ebony G. Patterson’s “neo-baroque” works “address violence, masculinity, ‘bling,’ visibility, and invisibility within the post-colonial context of her native Kingston and within black youth culture globally. This exhibition focuses on […] More
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How Has Desire Evolved in the Digital Age? A New Museum Show in Dublin Explores the Art of Lust—See Pictures Here
by Eliana Willis 17 March 2020, 18:18
“Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age”Irish Museum of Modern Art What the Museum Says: “From the beginning of the 20th century to now, ‘Desire: A Revision’ develops through the lens of the Eurocentric male gaze of the Surrealist artists and their influence in shaping artistic depictions of desire in contemporary […] More
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What Is the Role of a Museum in One of Polarized America’s Most Purple States? Oklahoma Contemporary Offers a Case Study
by Eliana Willis 17 March 2020, 04:30
Clad in a turtleneck and chic blazer, architect Rand Elliott—a dead ringer for the magician Penn Jillette, at least from certain angles—leaned back onto a couple of the 16,800 aluminum “fins” that comprise Oklahoma Contemporary’s facade. It was a gloomy day, but he explained that his design of the new museum reflects the city’s rapidly […] More
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Madame d’Ora Went From Being Vienna’s Premier Society Photographer to Europe’s Social Conscience—See Her Indelible Work Here
by Eliana Willis 16 March 2020, 05:30
“Madame d’Ora“Neue Galerie, New York What the museum says: “Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), better known as Madame d’Ora, was an unusual woman for her time with a spectacular career as one of the leading photographic portraitists of the early 20th century. This exhibition, the largest museum retrospective on the Austrian photographer to date in the United States, […] More
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Rem Koolhaas’s ‘Countryside’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Suggests That the Architect Doesn’t Know What the Museum-Going Public Wants
by Eliana Willis 16 March 2020, 03:30
The Guggenheim’s current exhibition, “Countryside, The Future,” is based on a fundamentally silly premise: that after 40-plus years of primarily building in, and theorizing on, cities, which account for roughly 2 percent of the earth’s surface, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is a reliable authority on the other 98 percent of the globe. In his assertion […] More
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Kara Walker’s New Drawings Insert Former President Barack Obama Into Art-Historical Allegories—See Images Here
by Eliana Willis 13 March 2020, 19:37
In Kara Walker’s new show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., there’s a drawing of former President Barack Obama as Othello, the titular Moorish general of Shakespeare’s 16th-century tragedy, holding the head of his enemy, Iago—who looks a lot like Donald Trump. It’s one of several recent drawings by the artist depicting Obama in allegorical scenes […] More

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‘We Have to Help Them Be Useful’: Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko Explains How Existing Monuments Can Be Made to Speak for the Voiceless

‘How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?’: A Star-Studded Online Show Weighs the Triviality—and Importance—of Art in a Crisis

Artist Ebony G. Patterson’s Lush and Provocative Garden Installation in North Carolina Is a Delight for the Eyes—See It Here

How Has Desire Evolved in the Digital Age? A New Museum Show in Dublin Explores the Art of Lust—See Pictures Here

What Is the Role of a Museum in One of Polarized America’s Most Purple States? Oklahoma Contemporary Offers a Case Study

Madame d’Ora Went From Being Vienna’s Premier Society Photographer to Europe’s Social Conscience—See Her Indelible Work Here

Rem Koolhaas’s ‘Countryside’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Suggests That the Architect Doesn’t Know What the Museum-Going Public Wants

Kara Walker’s New Drawings Insert Former President Barack Obama Into Art-Historical Allegories—See Images Here

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