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Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes, the former longtime Deputy Director of the Calder Foundation, writes regularly for Artcritical.com and the Brooklyn Rail. Her work has also been included in The Magazine Antiques, Vanity Fair Spain, and many others, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. She has a bent for viewing contemporary art through the lens of history, and finding those threads that unite the present and the past. Find her occasionally on Twitter and Instagram.

Posted inArt

Florida’s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters

by Jessica Holmes August 10, 2021August 10, 2021

The Highwaymen’s paintings are an environmental time capsule for a state highly threatened by the climate crisis.

Posted inNews

Graphic and Street Artists Design Vibrant Posters to Get Out the Vote

by Jessica Holmes October 27, 2020November 5, 2020

Over 60 artists have contributed to Project 270, an initiative by Mana Urban Arts Project, to engage young, disenfranchised voters nationwide.

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Challenging Censorship, One Meticulous Artwork at a Time

by Jessica Holmes November 21, 2019

Xie’s latest exhibition at Asia Society Museum grapples with the long history of book banning in his home country of China.

Yinka Shonibare, "
Wind Sculpture (SG) I" (2018), hand-painted fiberglass resin cast 
(courtesy Collection of Davidson College, NC, and James Cohan Gallery, NY; photo by Jason Wyche, courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY)
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“I’m the Opposite of Donald Trump”: Yinka Shonibare MBE on His New Public Sculpture in NYC

by Jessica Holmes March 27, 2018March 28, 2018

The British-Nigerian artist’s Public Art Fund commission, located just a few blocks from Trump Tower, is a tall, billowing form featuring a riotous pattern inspired by Dutch wax fabrics.

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Allora & Calzadilla Confront Puerto Rico’s Fraught Relationship with the US

by Jessica Holmes October 26, 2017November 2, 2017

The Puerto Rico-based artist duo examine a tense, close connection with a poetic show using sculpture, performance, photo, and video.

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Delicate Paintings from Drag Icon Vaginal Davis Meet Monumental Sculpture From Louise Nevelson

by Jessica Holmes October 10, 2017October 10, 2017

With 20 tiny paintings and one hefty sculpture, an unexpected pairing of artists offers a nuanced take on femininity.

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Witnessing the Female Gaze in Susan Meiselas’s 1970s Street Photos

by Jessica Holmes May 25, 2017

With the Prince Street Girls series, Susan Meiselas has accomplished something subtle but radical: a body of work devoted entirely to how women regard each other without the infiltration of a male perspective.

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Drawing on Firsthand Experience to Depict the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina

by Jessica Holmes April 21, 2017

Dapper Bruce Lafitte’s work records a singular personal trajectory in a grander, historically significant moment.

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Pipes Stream Poetry in an Interactive Response to Flint’s Water Crisis

by Jessica Holmes March 2, 2017March 3, 2017

In the absence of a properly functioning political system, it is ever more vital for art to bestow parity.

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The Passionate Art of LGBTQ Prisoners in the US

by Jessica Holmes December 8, 2016

In this politically polarized moment, when the notion of compassion itself seems to be on trial, exhibitions like this one have become ever more urgent.

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Vintage Postcards for the Apocalypse

by Jessica Holmes October 14, 2016October 13, 2016

David Opdyke has taken scores of vintage postcards and altered each image in a way that completely changes its meaning.

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