The Whitney Museum of American Art, one of the many art institutions across the US that have resorted to layoffs Whitney Museum of American Art
A survey of people in the US museums sector found that 43% have lost income as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with the average decline in earnings amounting to 31%, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) reported today.
The poll, carried out from 9 to 17 March, also revealed that the pandemic has had an especially severe impact on independent consultants and contractors, who depend on museums’ shifting needs: over half have had their contracts with institutions cancelled or indefinitely postponed and have struggled to obtain new ones, the AAM says, resulting in the loss of over half their pre-pandemic income on average.
Artist Dawoud Bey on 6 of His Photos That Pushed His Work Forward Vulture.com 2 days ago Sasha Bonét
Dawoud Bey’s work is both a documentation and an excavation. The photographer is preoccupied with history and its effects on our contemporary experience, chronicling the America that resides largely in the shadows and bringing it closer to the center. Often depicting Black subjects, Bey understands that the collective aches we feel today are the remnants of yesterday’s agony, attesting to poet Audre Lorde’s verse: “And there are no new pains.”
On April 17, Bey’s retrospective exhibition “An American Project” opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with photographs made over the nearly five decades of the native New Yorker’s career. In Bey’s 35-mm camera images, his Polaroid portraits, and his large-format landscapes, we feel both the passion and contempt that he holds for his complicated country: In a street corner filled with rubbish,
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Gió Marconi opens Matthew Brannon s third solo show with the gallery
Matthew Brannon, 2021 (detail). Silkscreen with hand painted elements on paper, 52 x 45.5 inches. Photo: Kevin Frances.
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.-Gió Marconi opened Cold Shoulders / Foreign Affairs / Seafood Dinners / Power Vacuums / and The Last Gate at the End of a Very Long Terminal, Matthew Brannons third solo show with the gallery.
I made this exhibition during the surreal year that was 2020. I imagined a plane hovering in mid-air above a city sometime during the last century. Light as a feather, heavy as a whale. Each artwork shows the seat of an unseen passenger. Its the set of a theatre production after the show is over and the cameras are off. Its the moment upon waking before you remember all you have to do. Its the center of a book I wrote long ago. Its a space for you to enter. The floating world. Matthew Brannon, New York City, March 2021