The New York Times – Music:
A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also hints at what has been lost.
Author: Holland Cotter
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Charleston Museum Honors a Journey of Grief and Grace
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The International African American Museum, in a former slave port, is about more than slavery. It’s about survival and resilience.
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Pharaonic Funkatizing at the Met Roof Garden
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Lauren Halsey built a personal monument drawing on sources from ancient Egypt to George Clinton to threatened neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles.
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Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
In “Measuring Infinity,” the kinetic constructions of the Venezuelan sculptor Gertrud Goldschmidt climb, twist, dangle — and dazzle.
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JAM, a Gate-Crashing Gallery, Expanded the Idea of Blackness
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
In the hardscrabble New York of the ‘70s, Just Above Midtown Gallery created a model for an art world to come. At MoMA, that experiment has plenty of life.
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When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad Magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum.