Tucked between Kevin Beasley’s immersive multi-room solo show and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Caitlin Keogh’s first solo museum exhibition, Blank Melody, greets viewers with a handful of large scale, vibrant paintings. From a quick stroll around…
Monthly Archives: August, 2018
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The Painter and the Poet in Conversation: Blank Melody at the ICA
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Specters, Materiality, and the Presence and Absence of the Body: Kevin Beasley at the ICA Boston
Nike Air Jordan 1 shoes, durags, rain jackets, kaftans, mouth guards, feathers, fitted caps, microphones, sound effect processors, amplifiers, polyurethane foam, and resin are all materials Kevin Beasley focuses on to evoke the spectral traces of the past and present…
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“Ask Me” *: A Consideration of Art Basel and its contexts
*signage encouraging social interaction, held aloft by assistants at the entrances to Art Basel Returning from the commotion of Art Basel, its “region-wide art week,” and an exploration of Vienna, I’m encouraged to consider the interactive public and private art…