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Pauline Boty posing with her painting Celia Birtwell Surrounded by her Heroes, 1963, London, October 29, 1963. Photo: Michael Ward.
Books
Style Counsel
Alex Kitnick on Thomas Crow’s The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957–1969
James Benning, PLACE (detail), 2020, still from the HD video component (color, sound, 84 minutes) of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising a letterpress book and seven paintings on plywood, canvas, and paper.
Film
The Lives of Others
Erika Balsom on James Benning’s PLACE
Veneno, 2020, still from a TV show on HBO Max. Season 1, episode 4. Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez (Daniela Santiago).
TELEVISION
Poison Pen
Hari Nef on Veneno
Ulrike Müller, The Conference of the Animals (A Mural), 2020, latex paint. Installation view, Queens Museum, New York. Photo: Hai Zhang.
On Site
It’s a Small World (After All)
Gregg Bordowitz on “The Conference of the Animals”
Lisa Reihana, Ihi—The Separation of Rangi and Papa, 2020, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 12 minutes.
On Site
Creation Myth
Anthony Byrt on “Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art”
Lorraine O’Grady, Landscape (Western Hemisphere), 2010/2011, HD video, black-and-white, sound, 18 minutes 4 seconds. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Features
Lorraine O’Grady
Catherine Damman, Mira Dayal, and David Velasco reflect on O’Grady’s art
Lorraine O’Grady, The Clearing: or Cortés and La Malinche, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, N. and Me, 1991/2019, diptych, ink-jet prints, each 40 × 50". From Body Is the Ground of My Experience, 1991/2019. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Features
Risk Everything
Catherine Damman on the art of Lorraine O’Grady
Top row, left: Lorraine O’Grady, Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters IV), L: Devonia’s sister, Lorraine; R: Nefertiti’s sister, Mutnedjmet, 1980/1994, diptych, Cibachrome prints, overall 26 × 37". From Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994. Top row, right: Lorraine O’Grady, Miscegenated Family Album (Sibling Rivalry), L: Nefertiti; R: Nefertiti’s sister, Mutnedjmet, 1980/1994, diptych, Cibachrome prints, overall 26 × 37". From Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994. Center row, left: Lorraine O’Grady, Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters II), L: Nefertiti’s daughter, Merytaten; R: Devonia’s daughter, Candace, 1980/1994, diptych, Cibachrome prints, overall 26 × 37". From Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994. Center row, right: Lorraine O’Grady, Miscegenated Family Album (Cross Generational), L: Nefertiti, the last image; R: Devonia’s youngest daughter, Kimberley, 1980/1994, diptych, Cibachrome prints, overall 26 × 37". From Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994. Bottom row, left: Lorraine O’Grady, Miscegenated Family Album (Hero Worship), L: Devonia, age 14; and Lorraine, age 3; R: Devonia, age 24; and Lorraine, age 13, 1980/1994, diptych, Cibachrome prints, overall 26 × 37". From Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994. Bottom row, right: Lorraine O’Grady, Miscegenated Family Album (Progress of Queens), L: Devonia, age 36; R: Nefertiti, age 36, 1980/1994, diptych, Cibachrome prints, overall 26 × 37". From Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994.
Features
Close-Up: Theory of Relativity
Mira Dayal on Lorraine O’Grady’s Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994
Lorraine O’Grady, Announcement Card 1 (Banana-Palm with Lance), 2020, digital C-print, 50 × 33 3⁄8". From Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!), 2020. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Features
1000 Words: Lorraine O’Grady
Lorraine O’Grady talks about Announcement Of A New Persona (Performances To Come!)
Cecilia Vicuña, María Sabina, 1986, oil on canvas, 59 3⁄4 × 49 1⁄2".
Features
Portfolio: Cecilia VicuÑa
Cecilia Vicuña shares a portfolio featuring works from the beginning of her career
Leonilson, Ninguém (Nobody), 1992, thread on embroidered cotton pillowcase, cotton fabric, pillow, 9 1⁄4 × 18 1⁄8 × 2".
Features
Close-Up: Negative Capability
Irene V. Small on Leonilson’s Ninguém, 1992
Arnold J. Kemp, Mr. Kemp: Yellowing, Drying, Scorching, 2020, vinyl chair, vinyl seat cushions, thermometer, forty hardcover and paperback copies of Arnold Kemp’s 1972 Eat of Me: I Am the Savior, 31 × 41 × 32".
Features
1000 Words: Arnold J. Kemp
Arnold J. Kemp talks about “False Hydras”
Joan Mitchell in her studio, 60 Saint Marks Place, New York, 1957. Photo: Joan Mitchell and Rudy Burckhardt. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
Features
Joan Mitchell
Molly Warnock and Elise Archias illuminate Mitchell’s oeuvre
Joan Mitchell, Cross Section of a Bridge, 1951, oil on canvas, 79 3⁄4 × 119 3⁄4". © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
Features
Motion Pictures
Molly Warnock on the art of Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell, George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, 1957, oil on canvas, 87 3⁄4 × 78 1⁄4". © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
Features
Volume Judgement
Elise Archias on the art of Joan Mitchell
Louis Fratino, Waking up first, hard morning light, 2020, oil on canvas, 90 × 70".
Features
Openings: Louis Fratino
Durga Chew-Bose on the art of Louis Fratino
Madeline Hollander, Ouroboros: Gs, 2019. Performance view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 19, 2019. From left: Lauren Newman, Asami Tomida. Photos: Charles Roussel.
Features
Openings: Madeline Hollander
Charles Aubin on the art of Madeline Hollander
Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is . . . (Troupe Front), 1983/2009, C-print, 16 × 20". From Art Is . . . , 1983/2009. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is . . . (Troupe Front), 1983/2009, C-print, 16 × 20". From Art Is . . . , 1983/2009. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
March 2021
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