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People sit at a bus stop at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 21, 2021, a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd s murder. - The conviction of white officer Derek Chauvin for George Floyd s murder raised hopes on April 21 in the Black community of a historic turning point in US justice, but the police killing of another African American cast a shadow over prospects for change. ((Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images))
Early one morning in late March, as former officer Derek Chauvin sat on trial in downtown Minneapolis for murdering George Floyd, more than a dozen police converged to evict residents of an encampment of unhoused people in one of the city’s main Black neighbourhoods, Near North.
LaiSun Keane opens an exhibition of feminist artist Hannah Wilke
Installation view.
BOSTON, MASS
.- For the first time in more than 20 years, LaiSun Keane brings a public exhibition of an exclusive group of works by Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) to Boston titled Hannah Wilke: Friendship. The exhibition which illuminates the friendship between Wilke and Deena Axelrod, is being held at the gallery from February 18 to April 10, 2021. The last time Boston hosted an exhibition of Wilke s work was in 1996 at the Rose Art Museum. An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2021 from 4 - 6 pm for an in-person celebration.
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Updated 18th February 2021
Why Louise Bourgeois made her iconic spider sculptures
Written by Anya Ventura, CNN
Louise Bourgeois s spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, Maman French for mother stands 30 feet tall at London s Tate Modern; powerfully crouched, its spindly bronze legs taper down to exquisite pinpoints. Underneath the spider s abdomen, a metal egg sac full of white marble orbs hangs ominously over viewers heads. Though Bourgeois didn t begin her spiders until she was in her eighties, they have become her best-known works.
Bourgeois s origin story is recounted often in the numerous monographs, films, and exhibitions devoted to the influential late artist, whose biomorphic, large-scale works rank among the most important of the past century. She was born in 1911 in Paris, where her family operated a business restoring tapestries. As a child, she honed her drawing skil