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The first full-time Black curator at the Guggenheim Museum is pushing forward by looking back at all forms of historical accounts.

Sarah Charlesworth, Herald Tribune: November 1977 (1977, printed 2008). © 1977 Sarah Charlesworth. Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. “Fake news” will be a tempting aperture through which to approach “Off the Record,” a new group show at the Guggenheim that looks at the ways in which artists consider, critique, or otherwise manipulate “official” documents of history and state power.  It wouldn’t necessarily be wrong to take that tack. But it’s not what was on curator Ashley James’s mind as she organized the show—her first since becoming the museum�...

The European Commission has highlighted energy storage as key in the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy. Read on to learn more about this market and what’s ahead for the region. Interest in energy storage has increased over the past few years as governments around the world look at moving away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy sources.  In Europe, the European Commission, which is the executive branch of the European Union (EU), has highlighted energy storage as key in the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy. Having more energy storage options would allow the re...

How a Museum Show Honoring Breonna Taylor Is Trying to ‘Get It Right’ An upcoming exhibition brings Black contemporary artists to Louisville’s Speed Art Museum to honor Taylor and her legacy. For the curator Allison Glenn, it’s been an intense journey. Nick Cave, “Unarmed,” 2018, from “Promise, Witness, Remembrance,” an exhibition opening April 7 at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., in honor of Breonna Taylor. Credit...Nick Cave Published March 11, 2021Updated March 13, 2021 “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” — an exhibition opening April 7 at th...

7 Photobooks That Consider Black Lives and Artistic Visions From Carrie Mae Weems and Ming Smith to “Black Is Beautiful” and “The New Black Vanguard,” here are essential Aperture publications for our moment. Kwame Brathwaite, A school for one of the many modeling groups that had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s, ca. 1966 Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles Featured - February 11, 2021 Carrie Mae Weems, Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press To Make Their Own Way in the World i...