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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
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
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
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
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
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