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What Just Above Midtown Meant for Black Artists 

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

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.

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With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney March 29, 2021March 29, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Colony Little July 29, 2019October 22, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Laila Pedro December 12, 2017

A night of astrology, tarot, community, and Leonardo da Vinci at MoMA.

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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies

by Cynthia Cruz August 25, 2017

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

Avatar photo by Tod Seelie June 23, 2017June 24, 2017

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?

Avatar photo by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech March 7, 2017March 2, 2020

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

by Hyunjee Nicole Kim November 11, 2016November 14, 2016

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

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne July 28, 2016July 28, 2016

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

by John Yau April 2, 2016April 9, 2016

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

by John Yau March 27, 2016May 23, 2016

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

by Jillian Steinhauer April 23, 2015April 30, 2015

The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.

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