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“Szabolcs Bozó: Big Bang”Online and in person through August 1, 2020at Semiose, Paris What the gallery says: “What is art , what can it do, what’s the point of it all? These are the sort of idle questions that get batted around in normal times, but from the vantage point where I write these words—in New York City, […] More
On Friday, marches, parades, and processions across the United States will mark Juneteenth, the 155th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. In 2014, the New York-based artist Abigail DeVille staged a procession of her own through the streets of Harlem. sought to express both the joy and the pain of the African American experience. The event—which the […] More
“Renaissance Noir“Online through July 3 at UTA Artist Space What the gallery says: “‘Renaissance: Noir’ investigates Blackness on the continuum of the historiographies of African American artists’ narratives that assert, individually and collectively, their state-of-mind and state-of-being Black. An existence of “double consciousness,” as coined by W.E.B. DuBois, where one is constantly combating the ‘isms’—racism, colorism, […] More
“Gabriel Rico: Nature Loves to Hide”Through August 14 at Perrotin, Paris What the gallery says: “Gabriel Rico’s formulas are brief and precise expressions to make, solve, or achieve something concrete. Thus, they are processes helping to resolve problems or carry out tasks with a series of symbols and rules. The big difference between mathematical formulas […] More
“Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True”Online at Jack Shainman Gallery What the artist says: “In a time when it seems our priorities are placed on certainty and how to control output amidst a plethora of information that also feels protean and deeply influential, drawing out these vignettes was a […] More
In the past two weeks, statues of Christopher Columbus, Robert E. Lee, slave traders, and leaders of the Confederacy have been toppled and covered in protest signs as part of the widespread demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Back in 2017, artist Doreen Garner turned her attention to another figure commemorated […] More
“Mien”Online exhibition benefit through June 30 at TRNK What the organizers say: “Rather than presenting queerness as a cultural homology or indulging the exotification of black and brown bodies, the photographs by the selected artists take authorship over individual lived experiences while also acknowledging contributions to a representative body politic. The seven participating artists selected include […] More
“Tessa Perutz: Homme Allongé”Through July 5 at Ballon Rouge Collective, Brussels What the gallery says: “Tessa’s fragmented and often Fauvist landscapes depict colors dancing in form as if in a hallucination. Recently she has started to portray the body itself as a landscape, depicting human curvature in mirroring peaks, fields, and valleys. In this […] More
