NEW YORK Brooklyn Bridge Park Versed in popular culture and Black history and speaking to the intersecting narratives of migration and the immigrant experience, the works in “Black Atlantic” educate and enrich.
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LGBTQ+
Marc Swanson
CATSKILL, NEW YORK, AND NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS Thomas Cole National Historic Site and MASS MoCA Marc Swanson’s “A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” offers a queer elegy for our collective climate futures. The two-venue exhibition tackles a huge set of parameters, including climate change, the AIDS crisis and the friends he’s lost to it, the Industrial Revolution, the Hudson River School, sublime forests, and backyard gardens.
Nicole Eisenman
NEW YORK Hauser & Wirth Nicole Eisenman’s practice has always been intense, studio-focused, and personal. Their current exhibition, “Untitled (Show),” is overflowing with sculpture and painting, almost two shows in one.
Sheilah ReStack
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA The Blue Building Gallery For ReStack, “control” is the chimera that we reach for in the face of uncertainty. As curator Emily Falencki writes, “ReStack explores the way her identities—mother, lover, artist, friend—are filled with the anxiety and wonder of being (and not being) in control of connection and outcome.”
Object Lessons: Jeffrey Gibson
I’ve been working with fringe as a main element of the work for at least 10 years. Fringe was seen as an accessory, found on fancy dance shawls in powwow dances, and initially I was thinking of it in that context, using it on punching bags and wall hangings.
Sheila Pepe: Claiming Space
Sheila Pepe takes a gender-bending approach to process and material while also blurring the distinction between art and craft.
Inside Materiality: A Conversation with Florence Peake
Born and raised in London, Florence Peake is a sculptor, performance artist, and dancer whose work has been shaped by music, film, and poetry, as well as a keen interest in esoteric and shamanic practices.
Brian Sanchez and Neon Saltwater
SEATTLE Museum of Museums Energy Drink, an extensive, immersive installation by the artist team of Brian Sanchez and Neon Saltwater (on view through August 29, 2021), presents a number of possible interpretations: a gay dystopian environment for a “happy” couple; a hallucinatory fun house revolving around domestic symbols; a series of discrete activity areas for upscale urbanites who require access to gyms, spas, art galleries, sculpture studios, bars, and lounges.
Speaking My Business: A Conversation with Jay Critchley
Multidisciplinary artist/activist Jay Critchley, who is based in Provincetown, Massachusetts, uses humor and satire to touch on serious ecological, cultural, and political themes.
Body of Work: A Conversation with Young Joon Kwak
Young Joon Kwak, a Los Angeles-based artist working in sculpture, performance, and video, reimagines the form, function, and materiality of objects in order to propose alternative ways of seeing and understanding bodies, as well as physical and social spaces.
