The long-gone art gallery afforded Black artists a space to create without having to consider the pressures of the commercial art market or the fickle nature of nonprofit art institutions.
David Hammons
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With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
In Hammons’s body prints, the veteran artist melds method, intention, and significance.
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David Hammons Returns to LA With Wicked Tricks and Subtle Jabs
Imagining his first impression of the city he once called home, I suspect Hammons would have said: “You’ve let yourself go.” Conversely, he could have easily said, “I see you haven’t changed.”
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Stars Align for Charles White and Leonardo da Vinci at the Museum of Modern Art
A night of astrology, tarot, community, and Leonardo da Vinci at MoMA.
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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
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Inside LA’s Newest Art Museum, the Private Foundation of Fashion Moguls
A new private museum has taken over a former Masonic lodge in LA and transformed it into a 55,000-square-foot contemporary art venue.
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Goodbye to All That: Why Do Artists Reject the Art World?
Martin Herbert’s latest book is a collection of essays about 10 artists who play with the system, struggle against it, or walk away altogether.
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An Unflinching Meditation on the Violence Perpetrated Against Black Americans
In addition to the centuries of trauma that artists are exploring and attempting to reconcile with contemporary reality, there is also an underlying solidarity that weaves itself into the fabric of Non-fiction at the Underground Museum.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Launches Initiative to Deepen Collection of African American Art
Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons.
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Dear Adam D. Weinberg, Donna De Salvo, and Scott Rothkopf
Why doesn’t the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurate a series of exhibitions in honor of Herman Melville? It would certainly be fitting given the museum’s recent change of address.
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Why David Hammons Might Find It Necessary to Be Elusive and Difficult
Many writers – including, most recently, Peter Schjeldahl in the venerable magazine, The New Yorker – have characterized David Hammons as “elusive” and “difficult.” According to Schjeldahl: “The artist spoke with me, bracingly and delightfully, for a column in this magazine, in 2002. He wouldn’t do so again.”
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum’s First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.