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Faith Ringgold Is Black Art: A Review of “American People” at MCA

BY JEN TORWUDZO-STROH Dec 1, 2023 Every generation has a precious few artists whose works come to embody the very heart and soul of the time.... Read more

Artists of Color Ask: When is Visibility a Trap?

Aruna D'Souza - The New York Times Oct 27, 2023 In 'Going Dark' at the Guggenheim, 28 artists explore urgent questions around what it means to be seen, and to... Read more

These People Used to Live Here?

Naomi Fry - The New Yorker Oct 24, 2023 Tony Notarberardino, a photographer from Melbourne, first arrived at the Chelsea Hotel in 1994. He was in his mid-thirties, and... Read more

What to see at this year’s Frieze art fairs, from Leila Babiyre’s queer-themed sculpture to an actual dinosaur

Ben Luke - The Standard Oct 12, 2023 It’s the 20th anniversary of the art fair which helped make London one of the capitals of the contemporary art... Read more

What not to miss during Frieze 2023

BY EMILY STEER published on Bazzar Oct 11, 2023 London’s exceptional art scene comes alive in October. This week, an autumnal Regent’s Park plays host to the art fairs... Read more

‘Famous then forgotten’: can Frieze rescue the legions of lost female painters?

by Amy Fleming Oct 10, 2023 Down a leafy mews in Montparnasse where the windows and doorways are heavilyfringed with vines, you can still find a... Read more

10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Fall

by Zoë Lescaze, Hyperallergic Oct 2, 2023 'Faith Ringgold: American People Originally organized by the New Museum in New York City, this commanding survey of Faith Ringgold’s... Read more

Richard Mayhew exhibit opens at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

A talk with the 99-year-old artist is planned for Sunday and open to the public. Sep 23, 2023 written by editor at the Press Democrat. Richard Mayhew came to the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art on Saturday for... Read more

Kandy G Lopez’s Debut Show Inaugurates ACA Galleries’ New Space in Chelsea

New fiber works by the multi-media Afro-Caribbean American artist explore identity through marginalized individuals who represent her community. Sep 21, 2023 Continuing its storied legacy in American art, ACA Galleries embarks on a new chapter with the opening of its second... Read more

The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked

By Alex Greenberger, Artnews Aug 29, 2023 If the experiences of Ringgold and many other Black women are frequently denied by the mainstream, Ringgold upholds them here, echoing what it’s truly like to live in Harlem, a neighborhood whose predominantly Black citizenry long went unrepresented within the walls of art spaces. (The quilt format itself is a reference to a long Black tradition of art-making, which her grandmother practiced.) Crucially, other, related quilts by Ringgold feature New York cityscapes populated only by Black men, women, and children; they are at the center of Ringgold’s world, rather than existing at its margins. Read more

ACA Galleries Announces Expansion to Second Gallery Space in Chelsea

ACA Press Release Jul 19, 2023 ACA Galleries is pleased to announce the opening of its second gallery space located at 173 Tenth Avenue (20th St) in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Read more

What to See in NYC Galleries in July

The New York Times Jul 5, 2023 As a progenitor of the style writing movement, the artist Phase 2 developed a visual language that collided typographical deconstruction with the volatility of street life, advancing subway art’s urgent scrawl into a dense cosmology of form. This five-decade survey of his work includes 25 examples across paper, canvas, and aluminum engravings and still only glances at the magnitude of his contributions to hip-hop culture. Read more

Richard Mayhew: Inner Terrain

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art May 4, 2023 A rare and timely exhibition of the artwork of Richard Mayhew (b. 1924), featuring two dozen paintings that speak to American arts, culture, and history. Mayhew’s African American, Shinnecock, and Cherokee-Lumbee ancestries inform his dreamlike landscapes, which are saturated in vibrant colors, including shades of red and burnt earth pigments that suggest, as the artist has said, “blood in the soil.” Read more

Ringgold, Unterberg, Vendler to be Honored by Arts Academy

AP News Mar 18, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — Author-visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters′ annual awards and induction ceremony. Read more

Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold Was Wilson’s Artist In Residence In 1976 Feb 21, 2023 Through paintings, traditional masks, and quilts, artist Faith Ringgold explored the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for women’s rights through her art and incorporated the rich history of African culture into her work. Read more

John Baeder

Looking Back (1972 – 2018) at ACA Galleries Jan 4, 2023 ACA Galleries and MB Abram are currently showing John Baeder’s first exhibition at the gallery through February 18th, 2023. The event began on November 4th, 2022. Comprising five decades of work from 1972 – 2018 the show includes the last remaining paintings from the artist’s personal collection alongside his final series of Matchbook Cover paintings as well as his luminous still life photographs. Read more

Looking Back

American Art Collector Jan 3, 2023 New York’s ACA Galleries hosts a retrospective of photorealist painter John Baeder Unlike other masters of photorealism for whom technique and surface are often paramount, John Baeder revels in his subjects—diners, mostly, and in his photographic still lifes, objects with deep personal meaning. M.B. Abram, who represents Baeder and is collaborating with ACA Galleries in an ongoing retrospective of the artist’s work, writes, “Many of Baeder’s photorealist peers were preoccupied with shiny surfaces, reflections in store windows, forced perspective, and showy composition. Of the hyperrealists of the early ‘70’s, only Baeder embraced imagery that could be appreciated by everyday people and simultaneously, could be interpreted in terms of human values and archetypal relationships.” Read more

The Defining Exhibitions of 2022

the Editors of Artnews Dec 21, 2022 This year, after a series of delays, many of the most anticipated exhibitions of the past few years, coincided, resulting in a bounty of art to see. Prime among them were recurring shows, like the Venice Biennale in Italy and Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany, which lured hundreds of thousands of visitors with the promise of cutting-edge art. But, alongside those art festivals, which tended to hog the spotlight, a number of surveys and retrospectives continued to push at the limits of the canon and introduce new figures, all the while complicating the study of artists who are well-known. Many of these shows are still traveling and will continue to reshape art history as they venture to new venues. Below, a look at the 25 exhibitions that defined 2022. Read more

In Memory of Jack Stuppin

Dec 13, 2022 We remember nationally renowned artist, Jack Stuppin, who has died aged 89. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones. ⁠⁠ Jack Stuppin’s work has been reviewed and written about by such distinguished critics and scholars as Donald Kuspit, Mark Van Proyen, Susan Landauer and others. His paintings have been exhibited regularly in group and solo shows since 1985 in venues on the East and West Coasts, including the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Columbia University in New York, and the de Young Museum/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Jack Stuppin’s paintings are represented in several major public collections including the Butler Institute of Art, the de Young Museum/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program, the Oakland Museum, the Luther Burbank Center, the Crocker Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery and others.⁠ Read more

John Baeder's American Idols

Steven Heller Nov 7, 2022 "John Baeder: Looking Back" is the artist's first exhibition at ACA Galleries in New York, and the first all-encompassing intro- and retrospective in a while. Comprising five decades of work from 1972-2018, the show includes some of the most famous diner paintings from the artist's personal collection, his final series of Matchbook Cover paintings and his luminous still-life photographs. Read more

ARTS/ARTIFACTS; A Fading Language Of the Roadway,

The New York Times, Rita Reiff Oct 29, 2022 IN 1962, WHEN HE WAS AN art director at an advertising agency in Atlanta, John Baeder began photographing quirky signs he saw scribbled on walls, doors, roofs or Dumpsters around the city. Read more

Annie Leibovitz & Thelma Golden on Eight of the Most Influential Female Artists of Our Time

Annie Leibovitz & Thelma Golden Oct 14, 2022 Working across many visual vocabularies, the eight artists featured here collectively represent the phenomenal trajectory of the last half century. They have received widespread recognition for practices that have magnificently engaged media, pioneered new forms, and expressed radical subjectivities around history, gender, race, and identity - while expanding representations of women in the world of art and beyond. Read more

A homecoming for Abstract Expressionist Grace Hartigan at The Armory Show

The Art Newspaper, Karen Chernick Sep 7, 2022 A solo stand of the second-generation AbEx artist’s work gives a fuller picture of her evolution over more than 50 years Now this second-generation Abstract Expressionist is being singled out in the city where it all started for her, with a solo presentation at The Armory Show with ACA Galleries (which represented Hartigan during her lifetime, and then her estate after her death in 2008). It will include nine paintings and illustrates every decade of her career from the 1950s to the 2000s. Read more

The passing of Simon Perchik (December 24, 1923 -June 14, 2022)

Jun 16, 2022 With sadness we announce the passing of Simon Perchik Simon Perchik, 98, of East Hampton, NY died on June 14 at the VA Hospital in New York City. Simon was a great man. loving father, grandfather, husband, WW2 pilot, environmental lawyer, social activist and poet. A man of principles, Simon was a trailblazer. In his military career he reached the rank of First Lieutenant, flying 35 overseas missions. As an unrelenting environmentalist he served as Assistant DA for Suffolk County as its first Environmental Prosecutor from 1975-1980. In 1980 he retired to write full time as a prolific poet publishing more than 30 books. His archives are in the Beinecke library at Yale University. Read more

Faith Ringgold Makes Time 100, Influential Artist Has "Painted, Sculpted, Written, Sewed, and Incited Change All Her Life", May 23, 2022 - Victoria L. Valentine Faith Ringgold Makes Time 100, Influential Artist Has "Painted, Sculpted, Written, Sewed, and

Victoria L. Valentine May 23, 2022 THE TIME 100 LIST of the most influential people of 2022 was announced today and Faith Ringgold, 91, was among the many impressive figures honored. The newsmagazine enlisted Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem to pay tribute to Ringgold. Read more

Faith Ringgold’s “Jazz Stories: Somebody Stole My Broken Heart”

The New Yorker, Françoise Mouly Mar 21, 2022 In the artist Faith Ringgold’s children’s book “Harlem Renaissance Party,” Lonnie, a young boy, and his Uncle Bates spend a whirlwind day in nineteen-twenties Harlem meeting Black artistic greats, including Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and Coleman Hawkins. At the end of the tour, Lonnie says to his uncle, “Black people didn’t come to America to be free. We fought for our freedom by creating art, music, literature, and dance.” His uncle responds, “Now everywhere you look you find a piece of our freedom.” This understanding of the inescapable entanglement of joy and sorrow—and of hardship and creation—is one that echoes through much of Ringgold’s work, which can be seen, in a major retrospective, “Faith Ringgold: American People,” at the New Museum, in New York City, through June. This week’s cover, for the Spring Style & Design Issue, features a piece from Ringgold’s “Jazz Stories” series, which she began in 2004. In it, Ringgold, who was born in Harlem in 1930, celebrates the music that has provided her with a lifetime of inspiration. Read more

Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance

The New York Times, Holland Cotter Feb 17, 2022 If you want to catch the heat of the lava flow that was United States racial politics in the 1960s, the second floor of the New Museum in Manhattan is a good place to go. There you’ll find the earliest work in “Faith Ringgold: American People,” the first local retrospective of the Harlem-born artist in almost 40 years. Now 91, Ringgold was already a committed painter when the Black Power movement erupted. And she had a personal investment in the questions it raised: not just how to survive as a Black person in a racist white world, but how, as a woman, to thrive in any world at all. Read more

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Acquires Faith Ringgold

National Gallery of Art Oct 21, 2021 “This may well be the most important purchase of a single work of contemporary art since the National Gallery acquired Jackson Pollock’s No. 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) in 1976,” said Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art. The National Gallery of Art has acquired The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967), its first painting by Faith Ringgold (b. 1930). This pivotal work by a leading figure of contemporary art exemplifies the artist’s skill in using art as a vehicle to question the social dynamics of race, gender, and power. As a visual storyteller, Ringgold is known for her thought-provoking depictions of the difficult realities of the American experience. Read more

Buttons, beads and bravado: Celebrating the simple joy in Aminah Robinson's art

NPR WNYC, Susan Stamberg Oct 1, 2021 Folk artist, storyteller and visual historian, Robinson used her artwork to celebrate and memorialize the neighborhood of her childhood – Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio—and her journeys to and from her home. In drawings, paintings, sculpture, puppetry and music boxes, she reflected on themes of family and ancestry, and on the grandeur of simple objects and everyday tasks. Read more

Faith Ringgold's art of fearlessness and joy

CBS Sunday Morning - Nancy Giles Jul 11, 2021 Watch Faith Ringgold on CBS Sunday Morning Sunday Morning Extra Nancy Giles talks with artist Faith Ringgold, who for decades refused to bow to convention during her career as she stitched a vibrant tapestry of art, history and social commentary Read more

In the Studio With Faith Ringgold, Living Icon

W Magazine, Stephanie Eckardt Apr 23, 2021 “Mhm, that’s right,” Faith Ringgold says, reading the text at the bottom of her 1972 work United States of Attica: “This map of American violence is incomplete. Please write in whatever you find lacking.” We’re discussing one violent event in particular—the race riots that rocked Tulsa, Oklahoma 100 years ago—when it hits me: The massacre almost took place during Ringgold’s lifetime. The artist is now 90, and about as spry as a nonagenarian can be. Read more

At Age 90, Artist Faith Ringgold Is Still Speaking Her Mind

The Wall Street Journal, Kelly Crow Mar 31, 2021 The provocative pioneer known for quilts chronicling scenes of Black history, hope and protest, is the focus of a sweeping show coming to the Glenstone museum in Maryland Read more

Faith Ringgold is an artist, an activist and a prophet. But that’s only scratching the surface.

The Washington Post, Philip Kennicott Mar 31, 2021 The 1962 painting, an early work by the acclaimed artist, is encountered at the beginning of a powerful survey of her career on view at the Glenstone museum. Originally presented in 2019 at the Serpentine Galleries in London, the show traveled to Sweden and is seen here in its only U.S. venue. Read more

Faith Ringgold: 'I'm not going to see riots and not paint them'

The Guardian, Ellen E Jones Mar 18, 2021 In a 70-year career, Ringgold has shown the US its bloody, brutal side. And yet the artist started out wanting to paint landscapes … She talks about growing up during the Harlem Renaissance and her battles with the establishment Read more

How the Studio Museum in Harlem Transformed the Art World Forever

Harper's Bazaar, Salamishah Tillet Feb 26, 2021 Betye Saar. Faith Ringgold. Mickalene Thomas. Julie Mehretu. Simone Leigh. Jordan Casteel. These are only a few of the Black women artists who have recently exhibited in the nation’s largest museums, like the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, and the Getty. Read more

Overlooked No More: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Whose Art Chronicled Black Life

The New York Times, Kwame Opam Feb 26, 2021 She believed that life for her people in America was an act of near-superhuman perseverance, and she was determined to capture that history in every medium she could. Read more

‘Black Art: In the Absence of Light’ Reveals a History of Neglect and Triumph

The New York Times, Holland Cotter Feb 8, 2021 “This is Black art. And it matters. And it’s been going on for two hundred years. Deal with it.” So declares the art historian Maurice Berger toward the beginning of “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” a rich and absorbing documentary directed by Sam Pollard (“MLK/FBI”) and debuting on HBO Tuesday night. The feature-length film, assembled from interviews with contemporary artists, curators and scholars, was inspired by a single 1976 exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” the first large-scale survey of African-American artists. Read more

Artists become storytellers in Ringling College show

Herald-Tribune, Marty Fugate Feb 5, 2021 “Storytellers: Faith Ringgold + Aminah Robinson” showcases the work of two game-changing African-American artists at Ringling College. Ringgold is a painter, a sculptor, a quilt-maker, and an award-winning children’s author and illustrator. Robinson’s art includes drawings, cloth paintings, books and woodcuts. Curators Tim Jaeger and Mikaela Lamarche reflect Robinson and Ringgold’s multimedia approach by framing their art in a narrative context. Read more

Faith Ringgold Will Keep Fighting Back

The New York Times, Bob Morris Jun 11, 2020 ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — Faith Ringgold has seen plenty of shake-ups and strange moments in her 89 well-traveled years. But the provocative Harlem-born artist — who has confronted race relations in this country from every angle, led protests to diversify museums decades ago, and even went to jail for an exhibition she organized — has had no reference point for the pandemic keeping her in lockdown and creatively paralyzed in her home in this leafy suburb for much of the spring. Read more

New Yorkers invited to design iconic Rockefeller Center flags

6sqft, Devin Gannon May 18, 2020 A public art competition launched last week that asks New Yorkers to submit designs for the iconic flags that surround the Rink at Rockefeller Center. Led by the site’s developer Tishman Speyer, “The Flag Project” is looking for artwork that celebrates New York City, whether it be through graphic design, a drawing, or collage. Winning designs will be made into flags and flown from Rockefeller Center’s 192 flagpoles this August as part of a temporary exhibit. Read more

"Riffs and Relations" Examines Influence of European Modernism on Black Artists

Hypebeast Mar 25, 2020 The sweeping coronavirus pandemic has closed museums around the world for the near future, but the visual arts can still be enjoyed at least to an extent. One current exhibition, “Riffs and Relations” at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., is turning the spotlight on an expansive group of African-American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Read more

'Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition' Opens at The Phillips on Feb. 29

Feb 25, 2020 On Saturday, The Phillips Collection in D.C. will debut Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, a pioneering exhibition expanding the narrative of modern art in America by exploring the rich and complex history of 20th– and 21st–century African American artists and their responses to European modernism. Organized by guest curator Dr. Adrienne L. Childs and The Phillips Collection, Riffs and Relations will be on view exclusively at The Phillips Collection from February 29–May 24, 2020. Read more

Richard Mayhew: Transcendence

Exhibition Press Release Feb 5, 2020 Exhibition: MARCH 26 TO MAY 9, 2020 ACA Galleries is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Richard Mayhew, Transcendence,... Read more

This Artwork Changed My Life: Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"

Artsy, Casey Lesser Jan 21, 2020 The first time I saw Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937), I nearly missed it. I was 15 years old, studying abroad... Read more

Art Review: Tuning in to African American Art

Herald-Tribune, Marty Fugate Jan 19, 2020 ‘Spectrum: A Celebration of Artistic Diversity’: Runs through Feb. 6 at Ringling College’s Lois & David Stulberg Gallery, 1188 Dr.... Read more

Race, resistance and revolution: what to expect from US art in 2020

The Guardian, Nadja Sayej Jan 6, 2020 In the months leading up to the election, museums and galleries across America will host a number of impassioned and political exhibitions. Read more

Close Encounters

Artforum, Kerry James Marshall Jan 2, 2020 Kerry James Marshall on Pablo Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Henri Matisse, and Alma Thomas at MoMA Read more

Joseph Peller featured in “Solar Impressions” at the Southampton Arts Center, November 16 – December 29, 2019

Dec 20, 2019 Joseph Peller is featured in Solar Impressions at the Southampton Arts Center from November 16 through December 29, 2019. Read more

Phase 2, an Aerosol Art Innovator, Is Dead at 64

Jon Caramanica Dec 20, 2019 In the early 1970s, the dawn of what became known as hip-hop, he helped shape the art of graffiti on New York City subways. But he hated the word. Read more

Exhibitions London 2019: Best art shows of the year, from Kara Walker to Cindy Sherman

Evening Standard, Zoe Paskett Dec 18, 2019 The capital’s galleries and museums have been packed to the rafters with outstanding exhibitions this year. Read more

Expert Eye: Isaac Julien shares his favourite works at Art Basel in Miami Beach

The Art Newspaper, Gabriella Angeleti Dec 3, 2019 The Harlem artist will have works from the 1970s and 1990s on view at Art Basel Miami Beach. Read more

For Faith Ringgold, the Past Is Present

The New York Times, Farah Nayeri Dec 3, 2019 The Harlem artist will have works from the 1970s and 1990s on view at Art Basel Miami Beach. Read more

An Art-Inspired Gift Guide to Make Your Holidays Shine Bright

Hyperallergic Nov 27, 2019 With the holidays nearly upon us, it’s time again to start thinking about how you want to celebrate your loved ones. If capitalism is your preferred means for expressing affection, have no fear, Hyperallergic’s editors have banded together to offer our picks for some of this year’s top art-related gifts. From books, to playing cards, and various hand-crafted goods, we’ve got you covered this Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Peruse away below: Read more

Black art has its moment, finally

The Philadelphia Tribune, Roberta Smith Nov 25, 2019 What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of Black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial galleries, art magazines, private collections and public commissions. Read more

A Sea Change in the Art World, Made by Black Creators

The New York Times, Roberta Smith Nov 24, 2019 What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial galleries, art magazines, private collections and public commissions. Read more

Baltimore Museum of Art Will Only Collect Works by Women in 2020

ARTNews, Claire Selvin Nov 18, 2019 Under the leadership of director Christopher Bedford, the Baltimore Museum of Art has made strides towards diversifying its collection. In 2018, the institution sparked a controversy when it deaccessioned works by white male artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Franz Kline, and used proceeds from those sales to purchase pieces by Charles Gaines, Emma Amos, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta, and other artists of color and women artists. Read more

‘Soul of a Nation’ explodes with Black Power

SF Examiner, Anita Katz Nov 12, 2019 “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983,” a comprehensive traveling exhibition celebrating African-American art and artists from the stormy, revolutionary, momentous Black Power era, has arrived at the de Young Museum. Read more

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR LISA FARRINGTON ILLUSTRATES HOW ART ENRICHES A JUSTICE-FOCUSED EDUCATIO

John Jay College of Criminal Justice Nov 7, 2019 Lisa Farrington, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Founding Chair Emeritus in the Department of Art & Music, has lived a life surrounded by art—whether creating it, analyzing it, writing about it, or teaching a course, art has been at the center of her life. Over the years, her work has garnered a number of accolades, most recently the Lifetime Achievement award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation. The award, which honors master artists and scholars of the African diaspora, was especially meaningful because it came from Faith Ringgold, the artist that awoke Farrington’s passion for African-American art. “Growing up I didn’t know much about African-American artists because African-American art wasn’t being taught in most schools at the time. It was during an art class that I took while pursuing my bachelor’s degree at Howard University, a Historically Black College, that I was introduced to Faith Ringgold’s work. We were shown her painting ‘American People Series #20: Die’ and I was completely blown away by her work. That piece now hangs next to Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles d’Avignon’ at the Museum of Modern Art.” Years later, while attending the CUNY Graduate Center, Ringgold’s work took center stage in Farrington’s doctoral dissertation, which later became two books, and put her on a path toward educating at John Jay. Read more

‘We were always here’: Blockbuster ‘Soul of a Nation’ comes to de Young Museum

Datebook, Charles Desmarais Nov 7, 2019 The latest edition of the catalog for “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” the blockbuster exhibition that opens Saturday, Nov. 9, at the de Young Museum, features an extraordinary cover image. Read more

The Pattern and Decoration Movement Is the Missing Feminist Piece of Our Maximalist Moment

Architectural Digest, Stacie Stukin Nov 5, 2019 A new MOCA exhibition reminds viewers of P&D's quilts, wallpapers, and long-overlooked significance Read more

MoMA's Revisionism Is Piecemeal and Problem-Filled: Feminist Art Historian Maura Reilly on the Museum's Rehang

Artnews, Maura Reilly Oct 31, 2019 During the 1990s, while pursuing my graduate art history degree at New York University, I worked in the Education Department of the Museum of Modern Art, where I led gallery tours of the museum’s permanent collection for the general public and occasionally VIPs. At that time, the permanent exhibition galleries, representing art produced from 1880 to the mid-1960s, were arranged to tell the “story” of modern art as conceived by founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., beginning with Monet and Cézanne, and then leading into Picasso, Futurism, Surrealism, and Jackson Pollock. According to Barr, “modern art” was a synchronic, linear progression of “isms” in which one (heterosexual, white) male “genius” from Europe or the U.S. influenced another who inevitably trumped or subverted his previous master, thereby producing an avant-garde progression. Barr’s story was so ingrained in the institution that it was never questioned as problematic. The fact that very few women, artists of color, and those not from Europe or North America—in other words, all “Other” artists—were not on display was not up for discussion. Indeed, I was dissuaded by my boss from cheekily offering a tour of “women artists in the collection” at a time when there were only eight on view. Read more

MoMA Reopening: Everything You Need to Know

The New York Times, Azi Paybarah Oct 21, 2019 For the last four months, one of the best known art institutions in the country, the Museum of Modern Art has been closed as part of an approximately $450 million renovation. Read more

What the New MoMA Misunderstands About Pablo Picasso and Faith Ringgold

Frieze, Jack McGrath Oct 18, 2019 Whether pairing the two inspires consternation or praise depends largely on how we conceive of the purpose of the Museum itself Read more

Budge up, great white males! MoMA goes global with an explosive $450m rehang

The Guardian, Charlotte Higgins Oct 16, 2019 It has the world’s finest modern art collection. But now the revered museum is rebalancing its walls – massively boosting work by women and artists of colour Read more

The Exuberance of MOMA’s Expansion

The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl Oct 14, 2019 The museum’s unparalleled collection spreads out in an enlarged space with updated stories to tell. Read more

MoMA Reboots With 'Modernism Plus'

Holland Cotter Oct 10, 2019 When the Museum of Modern Art reopens on Oct. 21 after a $450-million, 47,000-square-foot expansion, it will finally, if still cautiously, reveal itself to be a living, breathing 21st-century institution, rather than the monument to an obsolete history — white, male, and nationalist — that it has become over the years since its founding in 1929. Read more

New York's Iconic Museum of Modern Art Reveals Its $450 Million Makeover

Architectural Digest, Nick Mafi Oct 10, 2019 Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the renovated space includes an additional 165,000 square feet of gallery space, while making the artwork more accessible to the public. Read more

‘Mellencamp: Three Generations of Art’ coming to arts center

Sep 30, 2019 Southern Indiana Center for the Arts in Seymour recently announced its October exhibit, “Mellencamp: Three Generations of Art,” featuring works from John, Marilyn and Speck Mellencamp. Read more

Speaking Terms: Faith Ringgold’s Decades-Long Artistic Legacy Finds Power in London

ARTNews, Rianna Jade Parker Sep 6, 2019 In 1990, Verso Press republished Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman—a now-notorious critique of the 1960s-era Black Power Movement by Michele Wallace, a feminist writer and also the daughter of artist Faith Ringgold—with a new introduction in which the author reflected on lessons learned in the years after her book’s original publication in 1978. “It is my conviction that the only way to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past is to openly discuss them,” Wallace wrote. “Whether in nations, families, or individuals, the practice of being on speaking terms with your past lives is the only thing that makes it possible to trust yourself or anyone else. … The thing that still remained to be worked out was my relationship to my family as a writer and as a woman.” Read more

Six Works From Glenstone Are Going on Display at the Reach

Washingtonian, Nathan Diller Sep 5, 2019 From one great American institution to another, six works from Glenstone are taking a trip along the Potomac to be displayed at the Reach, the Kennedy Center’s new expansion, which opens to the public this weekend. Starting on September 7th, the works, ranging from aluminum paintings to mixed media on wood, will be on view alongside four other permanent pieces. Read more

A Portrait of Faith Ringgold Painted by Alice Neel is Jordan Casteel’s Favorite Artwork

Culture Type, Victoria L. Valentine Aug 27, 2019 WORKS BY MORE THAN 60 ARTISTS, including Faith Ringgold, are featured in “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.” Nearly all the artists are black, except Virginia Jaramillo, Andy Warhol (1928-1987), and Alice Neel (1900-1984), who contributed a portrait of Ringgold to the landmark exhibition. Read more

The Hirshhorn Museum Asked Artists About Their Influences. Amy Sherald Chose Deborah Roberts, Jordan Casteel Selected Faith Ringgold

Culture Type, Victoria L. Valentine Aug 25, 2019 FOR ITS FIFTH ANNUAL GALA in New York, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is paying tribute to 42 artists, an “intergenerational vanguard” including Jordan Casteel, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald, Deborah Roberts, and David Hartt. Read more

Faith Ringgold’s Painted and Sewn Survey of United States History

Hyperallergic, Naomi Polonsky Aug 5, 2019 At London’s Serpentine Gallery, Faith Ringgold tells stories of race and self-discovery which have too often gone untold. Read more

Faith Ringgold’s Painted and Sewn Survey of United States History

Hyperallergic, Naomi Polonsky Aug 5, 2019 At London’s Serpentine Gallery, Faith Ringgold tells stories of race and self-discovery which have too often gone untold. Read more

On View: At Serpentine Galleries in London, Faith Ringgold’s First Solo Exhibition at a European Institution

Culture Type, Victoria L. Valentine Jul 21, 2019 SERPENTINE GALLERIES is presenting a five-decade survey of pioneering American artist Faith Ringgold, 88. Throughout her career, Ringgold has worked at the intersection of art and politics. Exploring many bodies of work dating from 1963 to 2010, the show spans the civil rights and Black Power eras and continues a decade into the 21st century. Read more

Black Female Artists Are Headlining Exhibitions Throughout London This Summer

Culture Type, Victoria L. Valentine Jul 21, 2019 MORE THAN A DOZEN EXHIBITIONS, most in and around London, are showcasing the work of black female artists this summer. Presented at museums, nonprofits, and commercial galleries, many of the shows are breaking new ground for the artists, who span generations. Faith Ringgold at Serpentine Galleries is making her European institutional solo debut and Deborah Roberts at Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting her first-ever European solo exhibition. Read more

88-Year-Old Artist Faith Ringgold: "There Is Power In Ageing"

Vogue, Amel Mukhtar Jul 8, 2019 “There is power in ageing,” Faith Ringgold declares. We are talking about her forthcoming project, Ageing-aling-aling, but, coming after a wealth of stories, narrated in the slinky Chucs café next to her first European retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, the statement feels a little redundant. At 88, and as engaged as ever, the multidisciplinary artist has witnessed numerous landmark social shifts - and all the more extraordinarily, been at the centre of many. Read more

Faith Ringgold: The artist who captured the soul of the US

BBC, Arwa Haider Jul 3, 2019 As a new exhibition of art by Faith Ringgold opens in London, the 88-year-old talks to Arwa Haider about her early life and how she created subversive works with postage stamps and story quilts. Read more

Luchita Hurtado / Faith Ringgold review: Veterans of vivid art show off their true colours

Evening Standard, Ben Luke Jun 11, 2019 These shows are surveys of long lives — the combined age of Hurtado and Ringgold is 186. Neither has had a UK solo show before. Read more