Otobong Nkanga: When I was in Nigeria with my mom, we worked a lot with batik-making and dyeing. So my interest in relation to material, in relation to yarns has been from a very young age. I made ...
Artist, Otobong Nkanga: One of the things I'm really interested in is our relationship to this environment—thinking of labor, extractivism, connection to the land, thinking of ways of renovating, ways ...
RECENT gouaches by Stuart Edie, at the Ferargil, are so good that one wishes they were just a little better. In a modest foreword to the catalogue Edie says they "picture a result of things seen, ...
Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960 Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, 2016 Hardcover, 416 pages The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel ...
RECENTLY, in speaking to a group in New York, I admonished my listeners to beware of progress, for progress, I said, usually means giving up something worth while for something less attractive. I ...
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This Jam Session playlist presents music by Black artists, spanning from the early 1920s to the present day, selected by Norman Teague and his team as a riff on Teague’s Designer’s Choice exhibition ...
“I try to see one thing from five different viewpoints and keep moving, working around a central point,” Thomas Schütte has said. “But what it is I don’t know. As soon as you define it, it’s ended.” ...
Leah Dickerman: These "White Paintings" may not be prepossessing, but they're among the most radical statements about painting made in the middle of the 20th century. They are blank canvases stretched ...
Director, Glenn Lowry: In her earlier performance, Rhythm 0, Abramović surrendered complete control to her audience as she stood impassively, next to a table with objects that they could use on her as ...
GLENN LOWRY: Oldenburg created the large-scale soft sculptures Floor Burger, Floor Cone, and Floor Cake, for the 1962 installation of The Store at the Green Gallery in midtown Manhattan. CLAES ...