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Searching for Brazilian Identity Between Performance and Life

by Ela Bittencourt October 12, 2022October 12, 2022

Through regional music and dance Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca affirm as well as explore and subvert Brazilian identity.

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Kapwani Kiwanga Uses Daylight to Expose Racial Surveillance 

Avatar photo by Zoë Hopkins September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

Kapwani Kiwanga invites viewers to look with only the quiet glow of natural light seeping in through the skylights, illuminating a nuanced way of seeing race.

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Robert Colescott’s Indecorous Truths

by John Yau July 21, 2022July 28, 2022

Colescott’s use of stereotypes and humor continues to make viewers feel uncomfortable because it jabs indelicately at our complicity.

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We Need to Talk About the Middle Passage

Avatar photo by M. Charlene Stevens July 21, 2022July 21, 2022

Doreen Lynette Garner renders flesh in silicone with unforgiving realism, representing the pathology of colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy.

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Artist Spray-Paints Massive Graffiti on New Museum

by Hakim Bishara March 24, 2022March 25, 2022

It’s unclear how “Acer,” as the anonymous artist is known, evaded the museum’s security officers and surveillance cameras

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Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective

by Cassie Packard August 2, 2021August 3, 2021

A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades.

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On Grieving and Mourning With Art

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 3, 2021June 22, 2022

Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.

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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

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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Rhizome Board Member Resigns In Protest of Workplace Culture at New Museum

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 6, 2020November 6, 2020

Art collector Seth Stolbun stepped down from the board of Rhizome, a New Museum affiliate, after a report revealed accusations of workplace harassment and unhealthy work conditions at the museum.

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New Museum Faces Charges of Unfair Labor Practices in a Union Complaint

by Hakim Bishara August 11, 2020December 29, 2021

The complaint, filed by Local 2110 UAW, accuses the museum of laying off bargaining unit members in a discriminatory and retaliatory act and refusing to provide necessary information.

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New Museum Recalls Some Furloughed Workers, Union Calls for Greater Reform

by Hakim Bishara August 7, 2020December 29, 2021

“As they parade around their executive pay cuts, [director] Lisa Phillips is still making at least $500,000 while 25 people now have no income and no health insurance during a pandemic,” the union said.

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Brooklyn Museum Lays Off 29 Workers; New Museum Lays Off 18

by Hakim Bishara July 8, 2020November 5, 2020

Both museums received Paycheck Protection Program loans in the millions.

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