Tag: New Museum

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energy, their theme cleverly connected like spiderwebs
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America – book review

Preceding an exhibition at New York’s New Museum, this book, based on a vision of the late Okwui Enwezor and realised by artists and curators who worked with him, is a timely response to racist violence
We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces

An online exhibition of new net art critiques the digital networks we have become so reliant on during lockdown
Hans Haacke: All Connected

Hans Haacke’s “All Connected” at the New Museum is a retrospective featuring his major kinetic, social and political artworks
Lubaina Himid – interview: ‘It is my intention to create artworks that examine ideas about how to invent new rules by which to live’

Lubaina Himid’s first solo exhibition in the US opens this week, debuting works that continue her longstanding project on identity, representation and survival. She talks here about this new work and her pioneering role in the 1980s in the British…
Nari Ward – interview: ‘I wouldn’t be the artist I am now if I hadn’t moved to Harlem’

We the People, Nari Ward’s latest exhibition, at New Museum, New York, underlines the critical role the city has played in his career. Here, he discusses the importance of Harlem, the neighbourhood that continues to inform his work
Thomas Bayrle: Playtime

This major retrospective of the work of Thomas Bayrle brings together works from the past 50 years and throws an unsettling light on the nature of society
Jim Shaw: The End is Here

This first comprehensive retrospective of Jim Shaw to be held in New York, which includes his own work and his collection of modern-day Americana, verges between the deeply serious and the darkly comedic
Here and Elsewhere

New Museum, New York 16 July – 28 September 2014