Featured in Salman Toor’s Cosmopolitan Queer Life
The artist s first institutional solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art explores lives of Brown, queer subjects through a scrim of nostalgia
I don’t remember precisely when I first saw Salman Toor’s paintings but I do distinctly remember how I felt in that moment: a particular flash of recognition, a momentary illumination that results from seeing and being seen. In his scenes of the lives of queer people of colour, Toor extends this evanescent flash onto the quotidian activities of his androgynous Brown subjects, who gather for parties in cramped apartments and spend evenings at crowded bars or alone in bed. Along with Doron Langberg and Anthony Cudahy, Toor joins a cohort of queer figurative artists negotiating the history of painting and the contemporary developments that condition their subjectivity. Though Toor eschews the formal innovation of such painters as Jonathan Lyndon-Chase, rendering h
After a Bitter Battle, the Guggenheim and Its New Union Have Struck a Deal for Improved Pay and Benefits
The employees formed the museum s first union last summer.
The Guggenheim Museum with the logo for the IUOE Local 30.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum has signed a contract with its first-ever labor union, which is the latest in a wave of collective-bargaining agreements at museums across the US.
“Local 30 committed to these workers that we would relentlessly pursue an agreement where their talents and skills were justly recognized,” said William Lynn, business manager and financial secretary of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 30 (IUOE), in a statement. “We are proud to announce today that such an agreement has been reached with the Guggenheim.” Lynn also serves as vice president to the international union of operating engineers.
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Miles McEnery Gallery will open an exhibition of new paintings by Suzanne Caporael
Suzanne Caporael, 753 (wrack on blue), 2020. Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Miles McEnery Gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Suzanne Caporael. Book Eight, the artists eighth exhibition at the gallery, will open on 18 February at 520 West 21st Street and will remain on view through 27 March 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by art historian and philosopher David Carrier.
In Book Eight, Caporael continues her profound exploration of the nature of color, surface, and aesthetics. Her calm, yet invigorating paintings, composed of multiple veiled layers of oil paint, employ an aesthetic inherent to the experience of the real world. The artists ongoing investigation of rich colors, decisive placement of shapes, and juxtaposing fo
Exhibition at the Heard Museum explores one of the great American artists of the 20th century
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight presents fresh scholarship and appreciation for this Modernist masters inspiration from American Indian culture and the Oklahoma Plains.
PHOENIX, AZ
.-The Heard Museum is presenting a new original exhibition, Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight. Leon Polk Smith, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, has been studied and celebrated through major exhibitions, publications and scholarship over many years and yet, a significant source of inspiration and influence on his artistic production remains largely unexplored. Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight takes visitors on the journey of how a young Smith, influenced by American Indian culture in his native Oklahoma, became one of Americas most accomplished painters and a founding icon of midcentury modern art and design.