Amid the growing inequities of the pandemic, art workers, artists, and activists are continuing to pu
| Amid the growing inequities of the pandemic, art workers, artists, and activists are continuing to push back against the grip of billionaires and corporations in arts institutions. In that vein, a new coalition, International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings, is launching a 10-week “strike” against MoMA. More on this below.Across town, there’s reason to rejoice: Lorraine O'Grady’s first retrospective is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum. As Alexandra Thomas writes, Both/And sets the galleries “ablaze with the radical gestures and eccentric poetics of an incomparable artist.” Also worth catching: Izumi Kato’s ethereal show at Perrotin, Chloe Wise’s painterly and pop culture-inflected critiques at Almine Rech, and so much more.—Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews | |
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| Surrounded by Spirits Izumi Kato’s exhibition at Perrotin dispatches us to long-forgotten realms of childhood, when the world was full of benign, sinister, weird, and mysterious beings. John Yau |
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| | Angel Otero, "Birdsong" (2020), 84" x 94" x 1.5" (image courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London) |
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