In Building a Better Monument, nine artists remind us of the work that anti-racist monuments and movements must do: memorialize the fallen, while stoking the righteous anger needed for transformation.
Didier William
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A Survey of American Art That Isn’t Just Coastal
This thoughtfully curated exhibition is evidence that much compelling and adventurous art is indeed being produced all around the country.
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Didier William on Painting a Revolution
In his large two-part exhibition, the queer Haitian-American artist centers the body, which figures in his work both literally and figuratively.
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How to Envision the Revolution
The Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1 exhibition suggests that agency has everything to do with seeing rather merely being seen.
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Painting in The Age of Anxiety
I have an innate distrust of work that has a whiff of nostalgia drifting off its surface, whether it is for Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, or, further back, Albert Pinkham Ryder.
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Aesthetics Matter at the Volta Art Fair
A century after the emergence of Dada, Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont’s curated section is all about political collage.
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A Haitian Artist’s Mesmerizing Eyes
Didier William’s slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing.
