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☆ In the Nigeria Pavilion, Criticism Meets Optimism
  + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The artist was collecting material for a sonic and sculptural installation that will be presented in the Nigeria Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. The event, one of the art world’s most important, opens for previews next week and to the public on April 20. Okoyomon’s steel-framed structure, erected in a courtyard, imagines a kind of radio tower, decked with bells and colonized by creeping vines. Motion sensors on the tower activate a soundtrack: It will play in the courtyard and also online, for anyone to tune in. It mixes poems by Okoyomon with music and passages from those interviews, whose respondents range from fellow artists to “strangers, someone’s cook, someone’s auntie,” Okoyomon said.
Persons: Precious Okoyomon, ” —, Okoyomon, someone’s, ” Okoyomon Locations: Lagos, Nigeria’s, boisterousness, Brooklyn, Nigeria, Venice
☆ A New York Art Debut, a Los Angeles Love Song
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Video — four channels projected floor-to-ceiling — is just one part of this multi-sensory experience. Completing the immersive effect, shadows projected on the rear wall evoke Los Angeles street art and sights — an Olmec head; a raven on a power line. A bespoke scent — inspired by the earth and flora of Griffith Park — wafts through the gallery. “I find L.A. beautiful and horrific, and I love trying to see it that way,” Smith said. “You can have such profound rage at the city and then be gobstopped at a giant feral bush of bougainvillea.
Persons: Meshell Ndegeocello, Kelsey Lu —, Coleman, Ebony L, Haynes, Walker, ” Smith, ” Locations: Los Angeles, Griffith
☆ Dawoud Bey, Full Frame: On Richmond’s Trail of the Enslaved
  + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In Richmond the task Bey set himself was still more challenging, with just the path, foliage and water as raw materials. “You would think there’s not much here to look at,” he said as we paused on the trail. “What might those things add up to,” he said, when composed into the frame of a photograph. For Cassel Oliver, the curator, Bey has “mastered the technique of allowing the lens to be the eyes of the body,” inviting, even across the centuries, a kind of empathy. “Through the sheer beauty of the work,” she added, “he’s allowing us to see the trail as we have never seen it.”
Persons: I’m, ”, Bey, Cassel Oliver, “ Organizations: Railroad, Evergreen Locations: In Ohio, Evergreen Plantation, Louisiana, Richmond
☆ A Sculptor Breaks Through, Taking the Walls Down With Her
  + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
At MoMA, meanwhile, a new sculpture has gone on extended view in the sculpture garden, titled “S’adossant (Pauline)” or “Reclining (Pauline).” Its three main sections are painted a fleshy pink and suggest a reclining figure. Among past incarnations, they told me, the building was once a depot where the East German army painted tanks before parades. Baghramian is a creature of Berlin arguably more than she is German, having lived in the city stateless for years before receiving citizenship. She spent tedious hours in government offices helping newcomers with paperwork, and worked at the women’s shelter that her sister Louise co-founded. “It was a flux moment,” she said of the 1990s in Berlin, “when things were changing and unstable in a positive way.”
Persons: S’adossant, Pauline, ”, “, I’ve, Baghramian, Michel Ziegler, Louise Organizations: MoMA, East Locations: Berlin, Isfahan, Islamic Republic, Iran, East Berlin, West Berlin
☆ A New Energy Is Vibrating at This House
  + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The priest, Jean-Daniel Lafontant, had come from Haiti to help reopen the House of World Cultures, Berlin’s distinguished but dowdy center for non-European arts and ideas. The House — or H.K.W., as everyone calls it, using its German initials — is an unwieldy beast, an anachronism with promise. (The building was an American gift to West Berlin during the Cold War.) Founded in 1989 at the dawn of multiculturalism, and just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, H.K.W. has yawed between programs that highlight foreignness — for instance one-country exhibitions, or “world” music and films — and more complex fare.
Persons: Jean, Daniel Lafontant, Berlin’s, Papa Legba Locations: Berlin, Haiti, American, West Berlin
☆ A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes
  + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But she also made and began showing abstract paintings, encouraged by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden. Her turn to sculpture began in New York. The artists Ana Mendieta, who helped organize the show, and Howardena Pindell, whom it also featured, were among her friends. By then, however, she had resettled in small-town Georgia — first Macon, then Athens — beginning a fade from view in the New York scene that was later compounded by ill health. But the South held her heart and concerns, and in Georgia her sculpture added scales, materials and methods, in tune with the land and its stories.
Persons: Buchanan, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, frustulas, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell Organizations: Columbia University, Bronx and, —, Georgia Locations: New York City, Bronx, Bronx and New Jersey, New York, United States, A.I.R, Macon, Athens, Georgia
☆ Matthew Barney, Back in the Game
  + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The hit, 45 years ago, shook up the world of football. But not Darryl Stingley, the receiver for the New England Patriots who bore the head-on charge by Jack Tatum of the Oakland Raiders. The artist Matthew Barney was an 11-year-old in Idaho at the time and remembers the incident from constant slow-motion replays on television. He was just getting into the sport seriously himself, and the Tatum-Stingley collision, though shocking, didn’t stop him. He relished practice drills where he and other boys were ordered to slam into each other at top speed, he said.
☆ An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. A year earlier, while visiting the museum, Mr. Biggers had encountered a statue by Thomas Ball that depicted Abraham Lincoln standing tall, his outstretched arm hovering above a freed slave who crouches seminude at his feet. Ms. Gilman had expressed her discomfort about continuing to show it without context. “The museum was almost ashamed, it seemed, of the piece being in their collection,” Mr. Biggers said in a recent interview in his studio in the Bronx in New York City. And I was like: This is actually an opportunity to open things up.”
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