As we prepare our posts on this weekend’s 2012 Bushwick Open Studios, we wanted to give you a sense of what we saw over the course of the last few days. The following 110 images are a selection of studio visits, gallery shows, some impromptu exhibitions and even the area’s first art fair, Bushwick Basel.
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Beholding and Curating with Care
Curator La Tanya S. Autry shares a set of crucial questions she considers when curating images of anti-Black violence.
Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief
Crys Yin’s subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.
The National Portrait Gallery Announces New Online Programs to Kick Off 2022
The first lecture is on the relationship between early portrait photography and diverse notions of US identity during the Gilded Age. Register to attend on January 25.
Using Clay to Concretize the Psychological State of Being Wounded
With her clay relief sculptures, Brie Ruais probes the exit wound and its deep psychological implications.
A Historical Art of Dissent for the Digital Age
In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
Stanford Arts Presents a Virtual Conversation With Catherine Opie and Rebecca Solnit
Part of the university’s Artists on the Future series pairing renowned artists with cultural thought leaders, this online event is free and open to the public.
The Contrast Between Institutional and Personal Remembrances of Martin Luther King
When we honor King publicly, as many in the art circle did on Monday, we use these moments to do more than just remember and pay tribute.
Researchers Find Evidence Human Beings Are Way Older Than We Thought
A study that reexamined Homo sapiens fossils found our species is 30,000 years older than previously believed.
Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
Curated by Eric Brown, this exhibition at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation in New York is on view through February 26.
Saying Maybe to the Yes Men
As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.
Digital Exhibition Examines the Darker Side of Bananas
The banana’s dominance and ubiquity has had serious and far-reaching implications for the region, engendering exploitative labor systems, climate change, and migration.
The Forgotten Story of Modern Art’s Great Jewish Collectors
Charles Dellheim’s study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries.