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Polygon curator Justin Ramsey explains that the concept for the exhibition was inspired by two separate events.
In 1992, after the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police, American artist Nick Cave (not to be confused with the Australian musician of the same name) was sitting in a park, thinking about how to react, when he noticed a little twig lying broken and abandoned on the ground. Cave gathered up all the broken bits of wood he could find, took them back to his studio and created his first ever “soundsuit.”
Part armour, part disguise, part musical instrument, the idea has informed the artist’s practice for almost 30 years.
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May 4, 2021
From left: Timothee Chalamet, Amanda Gorman, Billie Eilish, and Naomi Osaka, the four co-hosts of the 2021 Met Gala.
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Adrian Piper Plans Protest in Berlin – The New York-born, Berlin-based artist is organizing a protest against overcrowding in German schools outside German parliament in Berlin on May 15. The demonstration is part of Piper’s ongoing campaign Wahlkampagne, which advocates for no more than 15 students per teacher. (
Peluquería, Limones, 1979, C-print.
Courtesy of the artist.
What more is there possibly to say about food? It’s been covered in every imaginable medium painting, writing, film, photography almost to the point of total exhaustion. Anyone with a smartphone can document their meals and share them with the world.
But just when you think there couldn’t be anything left, along comes something like
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography that reinvents the wheel all over again. Actually, that wheel is an oozing hunk of melting brie and an overripe red pear, photographed by American photographer Irving Penn. Garnished with a single black ant, the image traipses along the borderline between luscious and obscene.
Head First (2006). Photo by Becket Logan, courtesy of Ryan Lee Gallery, New York.
The artist Emma Amos died in May, at age 83, from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. But even as her illness progressed, the painter, printmaker, and weaver was sustained by the knowledge that her seven-decade career was finally on the brink of her first retrospective, “Color Odyssey” at the Georgia Museum of Art.
“Emma always knew that she was going to have a show with me she might not have remembered my name at the last, but she knew that I was organizing an exhibition,” Shawnya Harris, the museum’s curator of African American and African diasporic art, told Artnet News. “That really touched me.”