A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.
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Nomad MFA Course Culminates With Fourth Episode of Hydrofeminist METitations Podcast
First-year grad students produced this episode of the listening series, which originated as part of Ensayos’s “Coastal Curriculum” during the collective’s residency at the New Museum.
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Peter Saul, American Gadfly
Before he turned 30, it was clear that Saul had found his subject: an American society deeply rooted in consumerism, pervasive racism, and toxic masculinity.
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Hear Hans Haacke Discuss His Six-Decade Career
The artist is nothing if not defiant, and his talk at the New York’s New Museum will introduce his first major U.S. exhibition in 33 years.
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New Museum Union Workers Threaten a Strike Over Contract Negotiations
The workers voted by a 96% margin to authorize a strike if their demands for higher wages, health care benefits, and improved worker safety are not met.
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The New Museum’s Bathroom Nominated as “America’s Best Restroom”
A national competition rates the best restrooms in the United States. Among its finalists are the NYC museum’s colorfully designed washrooms.
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Nari Ward’s Angels in America
Ward doesn’t just utilize found objects; he communicates with them — intellectually, visually, soulfully.
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The Power of Color in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Paintings
New portraits by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, on view at the New Museum, reveal how the artist uses color to launch into the mind and psychology of her fictional characters.
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Death Wish: Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum
Pettibon’s real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
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The Extravagant Intimacy of Pipilotti Rist
The New Museum seems to have taken it upon itself to produce spectacles that are as moving as they are eye-filling. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is something else again.
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The Dicks We Grope to Get Ahead
A rock-climbing wall is covered with penises at the New Museum.