“After this discovery, what may have started as the Tear Gas Biennial is now the Sierra Bullet Biennial,” a Forensic Architecture researcher told Hyperallergic.
July 20, 2019
Eight Artists Withdraw Their Work From 2019 Whitney Biennial [UPDATED]
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, Nicole Eisenman, and Nicholas Galanin say that the museum has failed to adequately respond to the Warren Kanders controversy. Following the announcement, Eddie Arroyo, Christine Sun Kim, Agustina Woodgate, and Forensic Architecture announced their withdrawal.
Required Reading
This week, world’s largest intact Ancient mosaic, Gordon Parks’s 1961 images of a favela dweller, critic Inga Saffron roasts Stu Bykofsky, huge cache of 1980s noise and post-punk cassettes go online, spaceflight as colonialism, and more.
The Limits of Edvard Munch’s Radicalism
What remains unspoken in the British Museum’s Love and Angst is the ways Munch’s dark emotions frequently came to target the women in his life.
Surface Buzz with Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Twice, and GFriend
The new albums by these artists all adapt R&B tropes to their own uses.
An Indian Master of Fiber, Clay, and Bronze
In her fiber sculptures, Mrinalini Mukherjee achieved an alchemic relationship between materials and process, fusing abstraction and figuration to indelible effect.
Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces
Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.
Piero Manzoni and the Reinvention of Art
Manzoni’s work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
Sculptures on the Cusp of Language
Even as some of her works evoke functional objects, Christina Tenaglia is not interested in parody or citation. Their formal strength sets them in their own domain.
Suburban Visions to Make Your Skin Crawl
Amy Bennett gives us just enough tantalizing visual details to enthrall and mystify, without becoming heavy-handed.