To the Reader Dear Reader, as I write you this, author Lewis Hyde is giving a lecture at the Wexner Center for the Arts about his recent book A Primer of Forgetting. While I cannot be there in person (so close, yet so far), I want to use this post to send him a group […]
To continue my project Caryatids and the Patriarchy, I want to celebrate the unveiling of four new sculptures by Wangechi Mutu commissioned for the facade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The NewOnes, will free Us (2019). As the museum website announces, Mutu’s work: inaugurates an annual commission to animate The Met’s […]
1. He is still Here (Wexner Center for the Arts) 2. Lala Rukh’s ‘The Unholy Trinity’ (documenta Halle) 3. The House of the Falling Man (Columbus Museum of Art)
It is 1881. She somehow finds herself in London, visiting the British Museum. She is looking at the caryatid from the Erechtheion. As she wonders how much she is missing her sisters (she too is missing her sisters), in walks renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin, accompanied by a group of gentlemen from the museum. Rodin […]
The Portrait is a performance by iQhiya, a collective of young black South African female artists based in Cape Town. In April 2017 the work was performed in Athens (at the Athens School of Fine Art – ASFA) as part of the exhibition documenta 14. An endurance and durational piece, that comprised the members of […]