May 7 Regular SFR readers will no doubt be aware we’ve got it bad for the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. The museum has particularly shined throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with Senior Manager of Museum Education Winoka Yepa (Diné) both developing a phone app and digitizing entire exhibits within the ArtSteps app, and that’s not even mentioning the ongoing artist residency opportunities including its most recent with Anna Tsouhlarakis (Diné/Greek/Creek) and Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) and exhibits. Now, however, it seems like the rest of the world is finally catching on to the MoCNA magic, and
USA Today’s 10best.com readers’ poll website has named the Santa Fe institution the third-best art museum in the country.
Asia Society Texas opens The Mountain That Does Not Describe a Circle: Works by Hong Hong
Hong Hong (b. 1989, Hefei, China); Installation image of a large-scale project; Houston, Texas; 2021.
HOUSTON, TX
.-Asia Society Texas Center welcomes Houston-based artist Hong Hong in a new free exhibition of her large-scale paper works on view now through July 25, 2021. In this site-responsive installation, The Mountain That Does Not Describe a Circle responds to the architecture of ASTC as both a support and a counterpoint for ideas of scale, visual perception, and experiential connection.
The Mountain That Does Not Describe a Circle, which includes 25 works in 5 different installations, invites viewers to more deeply consider the material structure and surfaces of paper, its function, and its ability to communicate a broad range of information. While handwriting or printed text is on most of the paper we encounter, these works by Hong Hong feature mark-making of their own which can
The post-pandemic art world in Arkansas
courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
OPENING IN JULY: Crystal Bridges celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with the exhibition “Crystal Bridges at 10,” featuring more than 140 works, including Deborah Roberts’ mixed media on panel “He Looks Like Me.”
What the immediate future holds for our museum-going life is still a bit murky, thanks to the unknowns of the pandemic. But what is certain is that big things are on the post-pandemic horizon, with a spruced-up and expanded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts coming in 2022 and a 100,000-square-foot expansion at
Crystal Bridges Museum of Fine Art in 2024.