Lenders Accuse Smithsonian’s African American History Museum of ‘Unjust’ Removals of Objects
The museum reportedly claimed taking the objects out of galleries was “standard museum practice.”
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Night Lights and the Absurdity of Life with Mark Whalen @ Harper’s, NYC
A few months back, we sat down with Mark Whalen on Radio Juxtapoz to talk about making sculpture and his upcoming solo show, Night Lights, at Harper’s. The show opened this weekend, featuring Whalen’s eclectic works, works of glass, aluminum, bronze, and marble within these freestanding and wall-hanging sculptures. As the gallery notes, “Whalen captures the complexities of human emotion across seven heads juxtaposed with assorted materials and form,” and much of what Whalen told me in our podcast was the absurdity of life and how sculpture should be, and can be, a vehicle to show this. Listen to the conversation below.—Evan Pricco
World Press Photo Foundation Suspends Attribution of an Iconic Vietnam War Image
The photograph became a symbol of opposition during the Vietnam War, with an immediate and lasting global impact.
This Lower Manhattan Restaurant Doubles as an Immersive Black-and-White Sketchbook
With the exception of some colorful ceramic dishes and the open kitchen, the entire restaurant is rendered like a 2D drawing.
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Christiane Blattmann “Submissive Sculpture” at Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels
holding. EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD NEEDS YOU JUST AS MUCH AS YOU NEED THEM—Stacy Skolnik and Thomas Laprade We’re told, in the catechisms of modern self-help, that co-dependence is a sickness. But maybe the seam between love and leverage, freedom and fusion, isn’t fixed—but trembles like a thread strung between towers. A few notes on
Takashi Murakami Talks Painting, Process, and UFOs as He Opens Two Major Exhibitions
The artist on expanding two major museum shows—and what it means to copy your way toward clarity.
Phillips Americas President Jean-Paul Engelen Joins Acquavella Galleries
He will begin in the role as director on July 1.
Julian Ehrlich Joins Gladstone Gallery After Breakout Run at Christie’s
At Christie’s, he helped grow the markets of artists ranging from Noah Purifoy to Rick Lowe.
“Soggiorno” at Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
“In the house, we are so alone that we are sometimes lost.”—Marguerite Duras, Écrire, 1993 If I were Esther Friedman, I might have something pithy to say about Berlin’s era of experimentation and alienation, its specific psyche and temporal states, rushes of systemic interconnectedness and isolation, glittery love affairs with rock stars, and its naivety,