Simone Leigh’s survey split between two LA venues demonstrates the futility in prescribing a definitive role to the Black feminine in a postcolonial world.
| | | Leigh’s survey split between two Los Angeles venues demonstrates the futility in prescribing a definitive role to the Black feminine in a postcolonial world. | Nereya Otieno |
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SPONSORED | | | | ANOHNI and the Johnsons make their return to the US for their first tour together in 14 years, entitled It’s Time To Feel What’s Really Happening. That name is a challenge to apathy and cynicism, but it’s also a note of permission: Here, you can be real about what it means to be alive.
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WHAT TO SEE THIS WEEK | | | Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us at Webber Gallery | A forest fire between us offers an overdue survey of the artist’s groundbreaking work, including graceful nudes, frank scenes of queer community, and radical images of female utopia. |
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| Arthur Jafa: nativemanson at Sprüth Magers | Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa uses the archive as his medium, remixing, cutting, pasting, and reassembling a wide spectrum of still and moving images into biting commentaries on what it means to be Black in America. |
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| Lita Albuquerque: Earth Skin atMichael Kohn Gallery | Lita Albuquerque’s practice has long involved engagement with sites outside of the gallery space. Earth Skin reverses this relationship by bringing the landscape into the gallery, with a floor of decomposed granite suggesting a rupture in the barrier between nature and culture. |
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SPONSORED | | | | The art of your dreams is closer than you think. The Other Art Fair combines affordable and original artworks from 140 independent artists with interactive experiences, creative workshops, food trucks – and a fully stocked bar.
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IN THE NEWS | | | | The event to kick off the museum’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative struck guests with falling debris. | Rhea Nayyar |
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BAY AREA STANDOUT | | | | The artists in this exhibition know that we cannot simply “get over” the history of racialization, as well as the destructive legacy of US imperialism. | Alex Paik |
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