Chapman Brothers censored in Rome, selfie concerns for London’s National Gallery, a lost trove of African art in Missouri, and more from the week in art news.
Tiernan Morgan
Tiernan Morgan is the former producer of Hyperallergic. His articles have examined New York’s 1980s art scene and artist resale royalties. He also collaborates with artist and regular Hyperallergic contributor Lauren Purje on a series of illustrated guides to the art world. His legal middle name is Bam-Bam. He tweets at @tiernanbambam.
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Painting the Power of Patriarchy
Sandwiched between two other concurrent exhibitions at the Ryan Lee Gallery, May Stevens: Fight the Power, a one-room exhibit consisting of a mere five pieces, packs a mighty punch. The works, all of which were executed during the Civil Rights era, remain highly arresting, despite some minor signs of physical aging.
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Art Movements
MOCA North Miami will close, trustees from the Rauschenberg Foundation win $24.6 million, ceramic poppies take over the Tower of London, and more from the week in art news.
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The Birth and Education of Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago, arguably the world’s best known Feminist artist, continues to fiercely divide opinion. Her detractors accuse her work of being simplistic and singleminded, while loyalists praise her unwavering activism. The artist has fostered a reputation for being independent and uncompromising.
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Mimi Smith’s Battle with Chase Manhattan Bank
Censored, blown up by terrorists, and the subject of a four-year legal battle with Chase Manhattan Bank, Mimi Smith’s 1982 installation “October 1, 1981,” an artwork inspired by television news, was briefly the subject of the news itself.
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Jayson Musson’s Joke Without a Punchline
Jayson Musson’s latest exhibition, Exhibit of Abstract Art, lacks the sharp insight for which the artist is renowned. On view at Salon 94, the show skewers the lofty pretensions of modernism and the art world, but its broad critique lacks punch.
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Highlights From the PAD/D Archive
A look at the contents of the large PAD/D Archive at MoMA QNS.
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Art in the 1980s: The Forgotten History of PAD/D
July 1979. Margaret Thatcher is the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Iran has entered its fourth month as an Islamic Republic, and the Sandinista National Liberation Front have deposed the U.S. backed Samoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. It was against this political backdrop that Lucy Lippard’s exhibition, Some British Art From the Left (June 16 – July 14,1979) finished its run at Artists Space in New York City.
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The Vilification of Banksy’s Success
Banksy’s month-long New York residency might as well have been entitled, ‘The Banksy rehabilitation program.’ In coming to New York, the artist wasn’t simply courting a new American audience. He sought to rehabilitate his image with his former fans — Brits like me — whose interest tapered off long ago.
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Matthew Day Jackson: Too Big, Too Failed
Matthew Day Jackson’s Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue presents, as its very title suggests, a confused medley of disconnected work. If in time the exhibition isn’t simply forgotten, it will surely serve to demonstrate the ills of over-production, and the hubris of New York’s cavernous mega galleries.
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Robert Rauschenberg and Photography
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of photography throughout Rauschenberg’s career.