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In 2011, Ai Weiwei‘s 12 bronze animal heads were erected at the Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza near Central Park, launching an official multi-year world tour. At the unveiling, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in attendance, but the artist was nowhere to be found. Ai had been arrested in China for so-called “economic crimes,” […] More
“Lewis Hammond: Still Life”Through June 27 at Lulu, Mexico City What the gallery says: “The work of London-based painter Lewis Hammond seems to embody if not the macro aspect of the moment, then the micro, the personal, private experience of what many of us may currently be experiencing. Indeed, if Hammond’s tenebrous pictures felt relevant […] More
“MARCEL EICHNER: ME”Haverkampf Gallery What the gallery says: “In the fall of 2018, Marcel Eichner terminates the lease of his Berlin studio and moves to Spain. He not only leaves Berlin, he makes a radical cut. In the new surroundings, M.E. changes his method painting by painting. In 2020, he begins to create oil paintings […] More
“Dorthea Lange: Words & Pictures“Museum of Modern Art What the museum says: “Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange remarked, ‘All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary,’ and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history—can be fortified by words.’ Organized loosely chronologically and spanning her career, […] More
The South African-born artist Zanele Muholi is not a fan of boundaries. As a self-proclaimed “visual activist,” Muholi, who uses the pronoun “they,” refuses to be pigeonholed by sexual orientation, gender, or profession, though all of those things are integral aspects of Muholi’s identity. Britain’s Tate Modern museum was planning to open a major survey of […] More
When Klaus Biesenbach took the corner office as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, he gave up most of the trappings of his former life as a curator, swapping checklists for checkbooks. But there was one part of the job he couldn’t let go: studio visits. Now, even as the museum […] More
“Where does the work end, and I begin?” Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg asks in an exclusive new interview as part of Art21’s Extended Play series. “It’s so hard to differentiate,” she says, laughing, and a beat later, she groans: “that sounded so cheesy… even though it’s true!” Although the fair-haired artist, who appears in the […] More
“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
