The most important ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks to Michelle Kuo, the curator of the present, in regards to the political and experimental dedication that drove Whitten’s outstanding physique of labor.
Set up view of Jack Whitten: The Messenger, with Whitten’s Sep 11-01 (2006) on the right-hand facet Photograph: Jonathan Dorado
In Paris, one of many ultimate exhibitions to open on the Centre Pompidou earlier than it closes for 5 years was unveiled this week. Paris Noir brings collectively greater than 150 artists from throughout the African diaspora who have been based mostly in, or had notable stays in, the French capital between the Fifties and 2000. Ben went to Paris to talk to Alicia Knock, the lead curator on the present. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Arpita Singh’s Looking out Sita By Torn Papers, Paper Strips and Labels (2015).
Roland Dorcély, Léda et le cygne, 1958. Rights reserved. Photograph: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
It options in a brand new exhibition of the Indian artist’s work on the Serpentine North in London. The Artwork Newspaper’s affiliate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, spoke to the Serpentine Galleries’ inventive director, Hans Ulrich Obrist, in regards to the portray.
Arpita Singh, Looking out Sita By Torn Papers, Paper Strips and Labels (2015)
© Arpita Singh
Jack Whitten: The Messenger, Museum of Fashionable Artwork, New York, 23 March-2 August. You may hear Jack Whitten speaking about his life and work within the present’s audioguide at www.moma.orgParis Noir: Creative Circulations and Anti-colonial Resistance, 1950-2000, Centre Pompidou, Paris, till 30 JuneArpita Singh: Remembering, Serpentine North, London, till 27 July
