“Described by Peter Fischli as ‘a kaleidoscope of repudiated gestures’, the project explores a series of specific ruptures within the history of painting in the last 150 years, intertwined with the emergence of new social factors and cultural values. The exhibition also projects itself into… Read More
Monthly archives of “May 2021”
Craft Front & Center, and Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), May 22 – February 13, 2022
Craft Front & Center “Once at the margins of the art world, today craft is front and center in art galleries, museums, and fairs, widely recognized for its expressive potential and cultural significance. Craft Front & Center brings together more than 70 iconic and lesser-known works,… Read More
Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter at The Jewish Museum, May 21 – September 12, 2021
“The Jewish Museum presents Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter, an exhibition that explores Bourgeois’s complex and ambivalent relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, the exhibition showcases a selection of Bourgeois’s psychoanalytic writings — many of them presented to the public for the first time — along… Read More
Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964 at The Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – September 26, 2021
“The Museum of Modern Art presents Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964, the first museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil. On view May 8 – September 26, 2021, the exhibition focuses on the unforgettable creative achievements of São Paulo’s Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, a… Read More
Terence Gower: The Good Neighbour at Americas Society, May 12 – July 17, 2021
“Americas Society presents Terence Gower: The Good Neighbour, a solo exhibition focused on the Canadian artist’s relationship with Mexico since the early 1990s. The exhibition offers an overview of his work from his arrival in Mexico City in 1993 to his involvement with the city’s bustling… Read More
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time at Brooklyn Museum, May 14, 2021 – March 20, 2022
“The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time draws examples from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned collection of contemporary art to contemplate the profound disruption that occurred in 2020. Borrowing its title from an aeronautical term that refers to the pull of… Read More
Christian Nyampeta: Sometimes It Was Beautiful and The Hugo Boss Prize 2020: Deana Lawson, Centropy at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Christian Nyampeta: Sometimes It Was Beautiful “From April 30 through June 21, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the exhibition Christian Nyampeta: Sometimes It Was Beautiful. Inspired by Senegalese writer and film director Ousmane Sembène’s idea of cinema as a collective learning environment, artist, filmmaker, and… Read More
Nam June Paik at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), May 8 – October 3, 2021
“The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exclusive U.S. exhibition of Nam June Paik, a major retrospective of Paik’s radical and experimental art. One of the first truly global artists, Paik (1932–2006) foresaw the importance of mass media and new technologies,… Read More
Senga Nengudi: Topologies at Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 2 – July 25, 2021
“The Philadelphia Museum of Art will be the only East Coast venue for a major traveling exhibition devoted to Senga Nengudi, a leading figure of the 1970s Black American avant-garde and a pioneering artist of our time. Marked by her innovative use of everyday materials that… Read More
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