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mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People).
Mistikôsiwak is the Cree name for European settlers arriving at what is now known as North America during the seventeenth century. In both works, a self-portrait of the artist incarnated as his gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle steals the scene. In the first, they are seen on land, helping various castaways. They stare back at the viewer with a somewhat uneasy mix of reckoning and uncertainty in their eyes, as if aware that their benevolence will be ultimately betrayed. In the other, what’s left of the land has been conquered by white, armed nationalists, and Indigenous people crammed in a boat confidently sail away, across an oil-slicked, choppy sea, led by Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. They look ahead into the distance, hopeful.
The Merchant’s House Museum is celebrating Women’s History Month with a weekly reading series featuring 19th century short stories written by American women authors. Every Sunday at 4 p.m. throughout March, join the museum in celebrating the “women who dared,” trailblazing writers who found success in a male-dominated industry despite obvious barriers. Following the readings by museum historian Ann Haddad, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A with literary and feminist scholar Elaine Showalter, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University. Tune in via Facebook or Youtube.
As a dual Women’s History Month and St. Patrick’s Day event, the museum is hosting a virtual house tour through the eyes of the Irish women who worked at the Tredwell house. The tour “In the Footsteps of Bridget Murphy” shows what it was like for Bridget Murphy, Mary Smith, and Mary James to be domestic workers in 19th-century New York City. The event costs $10 and will take place on Zoom on Mar
Colossal new works by Carol Bove now on view on The Met facade
Installation view of The séances arent helping I, II, III, IV, 2021 for The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances arent helping. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Bruce Schwarz.
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.- American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) has created four sculptures for The Met Fifth Avenue s facade niches. The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren t helping is the second commission to be featured on the Museum s facade and will be on view through fall 2021. Made of sandblasted, contorted stainless-steel tubes and five-foot-wide reflective aluminum disks, the sculptures appear astoundingly lithe and supple, almost mercurial, despite their weight and heft-an effect Bove achieves by pushing her materials to their physical limits using incredible force. Projecting outward from the niches, the works confound perception.