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“Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat”Museo Jumex, Mexico City What the museum says: “Bo Bardi’s singular contributions to the fields of architecture, design, and museum practice are the subject of this exhibition, which also aims to critically frame Bo Bardi’s process of unlearning, and marking a critical distance from the Western and modernist canon, as a pivotal […] More
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstract Variations”Seattle Art Museum What the museum says: “At the heart of the installation is a recent addition to the Seattle Art Museum’s collection and a gift of late trustee Barney A. Ebsworth. The first complete expression of O’Keeffe’s personal brand of modernism, ‘Abstract Variations’ brings together with from the collection of the Whitney Museum of […] More
“Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana”Ford Foundation Gallery What the gallery says: “‘Per(Sister)’ explores one of the most critical issues of inequality and injustice facing our nation today through the lens of a population too often overlooked. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, women’s state prison populations in the United States have grown 834 percent over the […] More
Starting his working life in industrial kitchens, the American artist Allan McCollum has been thinking about large production systems for just about his entire life. When he began a serious art practice, it was inevitable that he would be thinking about the original versus the reproduction, and how value is assigned based on scarcity rather […] More
“Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann”Museum Susch, Switzerland What the museum says: Sabine Breitwieser, who organized the 2015 show of Schneemann’s work that toured institutions from Salzburg to New York City, said of this show: “This exhibition is driven by limits, both in media and society: how they can be overcome, transformed, and transgressed through […] More
“Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition”Phillips Collection, Washington, DC What the museum says: The show “presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th-century European artists with whom they engaged. “European modernist art has been an important, yet complicated influence on black […] More
“Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa”at the Pérez Art Museum Miami What the museum says: “Combining a high degree of painterly skill with a poetic, open-ended semiotic approach and a penchant for deep archival research, Meleko Mokgosi shines light on some of the complex socioeconomic dynamics that animate contemporary southern Africa. Whereas traditional history paintings feature […] More
“Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle”Peabody Essex Museum What the museum says: “‘Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle’ is the first museum exhibition of the series of paintings ‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ (1954–56) by the best-known black American artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence. Created during the modern civil rights era, Lawrence’s 30 intimate panels […] More
