“Black Atlantic,” presented by Public Art Fund and currently on view at Brooklyn Bridge Park, brings together newly commissioned works by five artists—Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams—sited across the waterfront park’s three piers, with views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty beyond.
Public Responsibility: A Conversation with Donald Lipski
Public art isn’t what it used to be. As we remove historical monuments associated with racism and ethnic disenfranchisement from the American landscape, we force ourselves to rethink the goals of public art and to reconsider who we are as a people.
Fragile and Beautiful Complexity: A Conversation with Masimba Hwati
Masimba Hwati, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, constructs intriguing assemblages of objects that comment on the country’s contemporary landscape with a mixture of traditional, colonial, postcolonial, and imported pop culture imagery.
Katie Paterson
EDINBURGH Ingleby Gallery Requiem, as an artwork and as an idea, remains central to the exhibition, which Paterson calls a lament or elegy. It is deeply melancholic, a requiem mass for a dying world, but it is profoundly optimistic, too.
A Conversation with Chris Schanck
Born in 1975 in Pittsburgh, Chris Schanck grew up in Dallas. He received a BFA in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Since 2011, he has lived in Detroit, where he founded a studio employing more than a dozen artists, students, and craftspeople.
Emii Alrai
WAKEFIELD, U.K. The Hepworth Wakefield Two enormous rocky mounds cleave the gallery in two. Following the length of this divide, or rupture, the eye is drawn to numerous glass vessels held in metal armatures mounted on the surface, which evoke something like an archaeological site.
Alan Saret
NEW YORK Karma With each sculpture and drawing purposefully demonstrating the range of his gestures, the exhibition examines 50 years spent tracing the spectacular subtlety of nature through almost immaterial manipulations of wire and other manmade materials.
Like a Rock: A Conversation with Nari Ward
Because Ward’s work can’t be reduced to a mere collection of materials, he enlists viewers in a process that recharges typical interactions with objects. We see something over and above a process and collection of things—a particular lived history of race, poverty, and consumer culture.
Materiales que Construyen Percepciones: Una Conversación con Marcolina Dipierro
Su trabajo se despliega en instalaciones, objetos o conjuntos escultóricos, muchas veces jugando con la dinámica del espacio que los contiene para generar la idea de que esos espacios son habitables en la realidad.
