Lorraine OâGrady, Still Cutting Into the Culture
And at 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isnât done yet. Sheâs getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Lorraine OâGradyâs retrospective opens March 5 at the Brooklyn Museum. âIâm working on the skin of the culture and Iâm making incisions,â she says.Credit.Lelanie Foster for The New York Times
Feb. 19, 2021
Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine OâGrady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion.
Instead, she was donning a dress hand-stitched from 180 pairs of white gloves â accessorized with a tiara, sash and cat-oâ-nine-tails â and heading to the gallery Just Above Midtown, to carry out a guerrilla-theater intervention.
The Designer Elevating the Present and Future of Photobooks
Nontsikelelo Mutiti draws on experimental publishing and archiving to create expressive platforms for Black images and stories.
Negroes and the War (1942). From
Waiting Room Magazine (Creative Time and Tilton Gallery, 2014)
Photobooks - February 19, 2021
Discourse around archives as a site of erasure is a persistent part of contemporary design and art practices. Using the book format to establish dominant and authoritative narratives of the historical and cultural record of entire peoples is as old as the book itself. For Zimbabwean-born designer and artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti, this fact that the book “produces an author” is a central entry point into publication design. With a conceptual approach informed by her background as a painter, Mutiti’s multidisciplinary design work draws on experimental publishing and archiving practices to elevate Black peoples of the past, present, and future.
Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/t-magazine/female-monuments-women.html
Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women?
There’s still very little thought paid to how women are represented as bodies and as selves.
Asked to paint a female figure she’d commemorate with a statue, the Los Angeles-based artist February James, 43, chose Augusta Savage (1892-1962), an American sculptor during the Harlem Renaissance. Savage is “making a statue of Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris,” James said, noting that Savage’s 1939 sculpture for the World’s Fair was destroyed.Credit.February James
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Exhibition at The New Museum brings together works that address Black grief
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, 2021. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The New Museum is proud to present Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. On view from February 17 to June 6, 2021, Grief and Grievance is an intergenerational exhibition bringing together thirty seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition further considers the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structur