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Sanford Biggers

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Sanford Biggers Cracks the Code of Quilts

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis June 19, 2022June 17, 2022

Billed as a “survey of quilt-based works,” Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch feels less like an overview of one section of the artist’s oeuvre and more like a record of his creative process overall.

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SCAD deFINE ART’s Virtual Events Complement Exhibitions in Atlanta and Savannah

by Savannah College of Art and Design February 22, 2021February 19, 2021

From February 23 to 25, enjoy online arts programming like a keynote lecture by honoree Sanford Biggers, a conversation between Amy Sedaris and Marcel Dzama, and more.

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In His New Works, Sanford Biggers Finds a Future Ethnography

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney September 8, 2020November 5, 2020

In his new series, the artist has created 60 works created directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts.

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Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 19, 2017

Biggers’s current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.

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At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art

by Michael Friedrich October 2, 2017September 29, 2017

The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we’ve long been asleep to.

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From Immigrant Stories to Environmental Dread, EXPO Chicago Gets Dark

by Claire Voon September 15, 2017September 15, 2017

The Midwest’s mega-fair seems less concerned with the bottom line, making space for politics.

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When Artists Carry the Burden of History

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz August 21, 2017August 23, 2017

No burden as heavy, on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history’s weight: how heavily the past’s truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.

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In Harlem, a New Triennial Parses the Historical, Political, and Social Context of “Uptown”

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney August 4, 2017

The inaugural show at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery spotlights 25 artists living or practicing north of 99th Street.

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Kehinde Wiley’s Pantheon of Black Artists

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 9, 2017June 9, 2017

In his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, the artist has begun to create a register of contemporary black visual artists.

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Trying to Believe in Sanford Biggers’s Subjective Cosmology

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 21, 2016November 21, 2016

In the Sanford Biggers exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, there is a feeling of being somewhat loose and unsupported in the space.

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Ed Ruscha’s Cactus Omelette and 75 Other Recipes by Artists and Writers

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne October 3, 2016October 4, 2016

The new Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook compiles recipes and personal food-related stories from 76 contemporary artists and writers, from Swoon’s Mississippi ratatouille to Ed Ruscha’s cactus omelette and Sanford Biggers’ red drink.

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Westward Exhibition: Billboard Art Unfolds Across America

by Jillian Steinhauer June 20, 2014June 21, 2014

For The Manifest Desinty Billboard Project, artist Zoe Crosher and LAND Director Shamim M. Momin have chosen 10 artists to create roughly 10 billboard artworks each at 10 locations along Interstate 10.

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