Thursday, May 19, 2011

COVER: Glenn Ligon / Art in America / May 2011


Glenn Ligon�s midcareer retrospective Glenn Ligon: America is the cover story of the May 2011 edition of Art in America magazine. (Click here to read article �Stranger in America� by Carly Berwick online.)
Additional articles featuring and/or mentioning black visual artists:
�    Kara Walker Q&A with Steel Stillman about �her personal background, the evolution of her well-known cut-paper pieces and films, and how issues of gender and race have informed her latest text-based works.�

�    Dawoud Bey�s blog is mentioned by Peter Plagens in �Mamas, Don�t Let Your Artists Grow Up To Be Critics� an essay about artists who write critical art reviews.

�    Nick Cave cited in Faye Hirsch�s article �The Everyone Artwork� which argues �the advantages, and the pitfalls, of digital democratization.� (Click here to read online.)

�    David Hammons exhibit at L&H Arts reviewed by Kristen Swenson. (Click here to read online.)

�    Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston is    mentioned in the ArtWorld column.

�    Holly Hotchner, Director of the Museum of Arts & Design, NY writes a letter to the editor responding to the publication�s unfair commentary regarding MAD�s recent exhibit �The Global Africa Project.�


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