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A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post Feb. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9Curator Okwui Enwezor.Giorgio Zucchiatti/Courtesy Archivio Storico della Biennale di VeneziaShow MoreShow Less 2of9A "Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America" installation by Adam Pendleton at New Museum in New York.Dario LasagniShow MoreShow Less 3of9 4of9A scene from "Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death," a 2016 video montage by Arthur Jafa.Courtesy of Arthur Jafa and Gladstone Gallery, New York and BrusselsShow MoreSho...

The late curator's work will be on display at New York's New Museum February 17-June 6.

Okwui Enwezor. Photo: Andreas Gebert, 2011, Courtesy Museum Folkwang. “With the media’s normalization of white nationalism,” Okwui Enwezor wrote in 2018, “the last two years have made clear that there is a new urgency to assess the role that artists, through works of art, have played to illuminate the searing contours of the American body politic.” Those words come from the late curator’s proposal for the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” which opens this week at New York’s New Museum (through June 6). In that statement, Enwezor tied a sense of w...

Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America Nadja Sayej At a time when black Americans are twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as their white counterparts while a reckoning continues over ongoing police brutality, a new group exhibition is opening to tell the story of black grief in America, from the 1960s to present day. Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America opens 17 February at the New Museum in New York City, featuring 37 artists whose work ties into loss linked to racial violence – including artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Carrie...

U.S. equities slump ahead of Big Tech earnings Anchalee Worrachate and Cormac Mullen Jan 25, 2021, 5:01 PM - Updated on Jan 26, 2021, 6:3, Bloomberg News BNN Bloomberg's mid-morning market update: Jan. 26, 2021 VIDEO SIGN OUT U.S. stocks slid ahead of earnings reports from the biggest tech companies. The dollar weakened. The S&P 500 Index edged lower after struggling to gain traction throughout the day, weighed down by worries over new coronavirus variants and hurdles to a fresh aid package. Small-caps were among the worst performers as traders turned away from bets on an end to CO...