Metropolitan Museum of Art selects Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke It is the third in a series of new site-specific commissions for the museum’s exterior, to create new work for the Fifth Avenue facade niches. Project “Gilt” will be visible this year from September 16 to May 22, 2023. “Hew Locke uses an insane aesthetic of …
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The coronavirus pandemic is a health crisis with many cultural sequelae: first and foremost, the deeper absorption of all aspects of our lives into networks and phone screens. More than last year, I’ve been more interested in art, music, and movies that somehow escape the workings of likes and shares and make room for human …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. “I am the ancestral magician of all 400-year-old Africans in America,” he said. Joe MinterIn her half-acre garden overlooking the two largest African American cemeteries in the south, she examines the intense outdoor artwork she has created from waste over the past 32 years. “They gave me the privilege of being their spokesperson,” …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. “I am the ancestral magician of all 400-year-old Africans in America,” he said. Joe MinterIn her half-acre garden overlooking the two largest African American cemeteries in the south, she examines the intense outdoor artwork she has created from waste over the past 32 years. “They gave me the privilege of being their spokesperson,” …
Continue reading “Saving the Artworks of the South: Deep Investment and a Drone”