View of Jeffrey Gibson’s “WE’RE POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT” at MASS MoCA. Greg Nesbit There was a lot of talk about portals earlier this month at MASS MoCA, the enormous art space in Western Massachusetts now playing home to an eye-popping, shape-shifting installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson through the winter of next year. Gibson …
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Installation view of “Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature,” 2024, at the Broad, Los Angeles. Photo Joshua White/JWPictures.com/Courtesy The Broad “If you have all my multiples,” Joseph Beuys once said, “then you have me completely.” The polymathic German sculptor was referring to the editioned objects that bore the intellectual and emotional freight of his artistic …
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Installation view of “Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad,” 2024–25, at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, featuring Mohammed’s flying horse, Buraq, as a coin-operated kiddie ride. Photo Jon Verney/Courtesy the artist, made with MASS MoCA Drone-operated flying carpets held captive inside a Taj Mahal–shaped cage; a mammoth head of the British colonialist Sir Cyril Radcliffe moonlighting …
Installation view of “Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation,” 2024–25, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, showing Black Female Hairstyles (1995) on the wall and Exquisite Tension (2007) on the video screen. Photo Above Ground Studio For its fall programming, London’s Whitechapel Gallery decided to present an intriguing pairing of exhibitions of two artists who at first may …
National Gallery, London, 2024 Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This year marks the 200th anniversary of London’s National Gallery. From humble beginnings it has grown into a cultural icon of the United Kingdom, housing some 2,400 works and now attracting several million visitors a year. The concept of a National Gallery was born after …
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Suchitra Mattai. Photo Heather Rasmussen/Courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles While she was still a high school student in Metuchen, New Jersey, Suchitra Mattai found herself puzzled by a history class she was taking. The course was called World History, but despite its name, it was clearly about the West, not the entire …
Zanele Muholi, Julie I, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2016, from the series “Somnyama Ngonyama” (2015–ongoing) Copyright © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York. Among the personas photographer Zanele Muholi adopts in their self-portraits, two defining features tie the images to the artist: their darkened skin tone and the brightness of their eyes. …
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Llyn Foulkes, Lifeboat, 2016. Acrylic and found objects on luan JENNY GORMAN “Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in 1997. Now, in 2024, Foulkes, one of the original …
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Gustave Caillebotte, Partie de bateau [Canotier au chapeau haut de forme], 1877–78. Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Photo Sophie Crépy For around a century, Gustave Caillebotte was the most discreet of the Impressionists, only coming back into the spotlight in 1994, when the Grand Palais in Paris celebrated the centenary of his death in 1894 through a …
Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1917 Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Digital image via Wikimedia Commons. Live fast, die young, and leave behind a beautiful corpse. Such is the legend of Italian 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani. If you generously mark the start of his career at age 14, when he first took …
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