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In a Bracing Exhibition at the Guggenheim, Artists Challenge the Way History Is Told Ashley James’s group show “Off the Record” exemplifies how curators with strong vision might reform institutions from within. Leslie Hewitt, Reviews - May 28, 2021 When Sadie Barnette was a kid growing up in Oakland, California, her father didn’t talk much about his time in the Black Panther Party. It’s possible he simply had other things to say. Rodney Barnette, who is now in his late seventies, h...

Rachel Zarrow March 17, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 1:07 pm An adaption of artist jackie sumell’s “Solitary Gardens” at UC Santa Cruz. The garden plots are meant to represent a solitary confinement cell, taking up the same 6-by-9-foot space. The plants, which are selected remotely by an incarcerated person in solitary confinement, only grow in the spaces where humans would usually be able to walk in the cell. Photo: R.R. Jones In the 2017 book “How To Do Politics With Art,...

Exhibition at The New Museum brings together works that address Black grief “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” 2021. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. NEW YORK, NY .- The New Museum is proud to present “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash...

Email is invalid Glenn Ligon, A Small Band, 2015. Neon, paint, and metal support, Three components; “blues”: 74 x 231 in (188 x 586.7 cm); “blood”: 74 ¾ x 231 1/2 in (189.9 x 588 cm); “bruise”: 74 3/4 x 264 3/4 in (189.9 x 672.5 cm); overall approx. 74 3/4 x 797 1/2 in (189.9 x 2025.7 cm). © Glenn Ligon. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Roberto Maro...

30 of the Best Art and Design Books of 2020 Got some shelf space? We hope you have a lot of it. Because the amount of great design books that were published this year is daunting. (Really—as I glance to my left, I see a teetering column of hardcovers that’s a Darwin Award in the making.) But to start: disclaimer time! When we write “The Best Books of 2020,” what we really mean is “our favorite design books that we came across in 2020.” Though many publications might be hesitant to...