The Radical Practice of Black Curation: A Symposium princeton.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from princeton.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Radical Practice of Black Curation engages the past, present, and future of Black curation as a practice that exceeds the urgent but constraining question of making and exhibiting art in a time of “racial reckoning.” The symposium assembles an influential, emerging transnational group of curators of color to reflect on their collaborative curatorial practice and the ways such collaborations are opening up vibrant new spaces in the contemporary art world. April 11 at Princeton; April 12 at Park Avenue Armory. Open to public; tickets required.
Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face, by Julia Bryan-Wilson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 352 pages.THE ICONIC LOUISE NEVELSON sculpture would appear straightforward to summarize: monochrome, modular, monumental. In general, such qualities and to them we might add wooden, assemblage, usually black, comprising found objects indicate an artist singularly absorbed, working through a set of formal propositions over a career, pursuing the archetypal enterprise of the modernist master. In particular, though, up close and personal, Nevelson’s sculptures are, well, defiantly