New York
January 22, 2020
An Artist’s Altars to Unsung Women
Rendered in a rainbow of vibrant colors, Clarity Haynes’s portrayals of queer, heavy, and disabled bodies reimagines the white box as a communal space that allows for the possibility of healing.
Christen Clifford | Denny Dimin Gallery, through January 25
Events
Hear About FESTAC ’77, the World Black and African Festival, From Its Official Photographer
The Independent Curators International is hosting a conversation between curator and scholar Oluremi Onabanjo and Marilyn Nance, who captured the most extensive archive of the influential festival.
Hakim Bishara | ICI, Jan 27, 6:30-8 pm
A New Abolitionist Book Club in NYC Aims to Improve Literacy About Incarceration
The book club’s first selection is Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?. The monthly gatherings will be held at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center in Manhattan.
Hakim Bishara | Bluestockings Bookstore, Jan 26, 5-7 pm
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News
Hans Haacke Gets Hacked by Activists at the New Museum
Two hackers, an artist and a graduate student at the New School, interfered with the results of Haacke’s visitors poll at his New Museum retrospective to protest the museum’s “complacency in capitalism.”
Reviews
The Urgent and Necessary Images of Shahidul Alam
At the Rubin Museum of Art, Truth to Power spotlights Alam’s tireless documentation of over 40 years of struggle and change in his native Bangladesh.
Melissa Stern | Rubin Museum of Art, through May 4
When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art
Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?
David Carrier | Yoshii Gallery, through January 25
Agnes Denes’s Future Imperfect
Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes’s art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today.
Louis Bury | The Shed, through March 22
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