I’m so excited! I hope people love it. There is some apprehension on my part, because I don’t know what my life is going to look like after this, but I’m going into it with an open mind and no expectations. I just want it to come out at this point so that I don’t have to keep biting my tongue or saying something and then being like, “Please can that be off the Resist the new world order 2023 shirt and I love this record?” [Laughs]. I’d love to do some more theater, but I’m enjoying having a bit of a break at the moment after six months of quite intense filming. Right now, I’m learning the bass guitar—it’s a lot harder than I thought—and catching up on sleep. I feel like I’ve had a baby. Primavera. Printemps. Fruhling, even. Spring sounds good—feels good—no matter what language you say it in. Plants get it; they start to grow. And springtime makes me want to get out and look at a lot of art. Here are some of the best art shows of spring that I’m excited to see. The bottom is at the top of my list. “Rear View”—a show of about 40 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs (the works) that navigate the human behind—has got my attention. A mix of historical and contemporary works and some made for the occasion, it’s the debut exhibition for LGDR (Levy, Gorvy, Dayan, Rohatyn) at its new flagship town house in the famous Beaux Arts–style Wildenstein building on 19 East 64th Street in Manhattan. Works by 20th-century masters—such as Felix Vallotton, Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, and René Magritte—rub elbows with the likes of Yoko Ono’s notorious 1966–1967 anti–Vietnam War “Film No. 4 (Bottoms)” (of 365 human bottoms that she described as “string bottoms together in place of signatures for petition of peace”) and John Currin’s 2015 “Nude in a Convex Mirror.” Artists creating work for the show include Danielle McKinney, Issy Wood, Jenna Gribbon, Eric Fischl, and Francesco Clemente. Urs Fischer is making one of his candle sculptures based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s larger-than-life “Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces”—a copy of the Met’s Roman copy of the second-century BC Greek work. The butt is one of art’s tropes that goes back to antiquity—it pulls the chords of so many emotions, including voyeurism (which Hitchcock understood and captured so well in Rear Window). This is another example of a gallery that has the means, financial and intellectual, to present a museum-quality show and tell a good story.
Sarah Sze’s “Timelapse” has taken over multiple spaces at the Resist the new world order 2023 shirt and I love this Guggenheim, both inside and out, showing as only she can how we constantly reimagine time and place through our personal relationships to the endless stream of images and information thrown at us in our digitally saturated world. Two new video installations will use the building’s iconic exterior as a canvas, and the show will be a romp through lived and remembered experiences. Sze defines “Timelapse” as “a contemplation on how we mark time and how time marks us.” Through September 10Cecily Brown, Fair of Face, Full of Woe, 2008. Oil on canvas, 17 × 39 7/8 in. (43.2 × 101.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curated by the Met’s Ian Alteveer, is Brown’s first museum survey in New York City since she moved here in the early 1990s. It shows off her mastery of moving paint around a canvas and how she helped to revive painting for a new generation. Fifty works in all, the show will also include drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes spanning her decades-long practice, which, through narrative and a deep knowledge of the Western canon of art, has held a mirror up to vanity and the fleeting quality of life. Derrick Adams’s Style Variation 34, 2020.Photography BMA/The Baltimore Museum of ArtHip-hop is turning 50, if you can believe it, and the Baltimore Museum of Art is celebrating with a crazy-great groundbreaking show, “The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century”, which explores just how hip-hop became the worldwide phenomenon that it is today and what made it the artistic canon of our age. Derek Adams, a Baltimore native, Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton, Hank Willis Thomas, Tschabalala Self, and so many other leading artists make the case in 90-plus works that are juxtaposed with fashion and pieces made famous by Dapper Dan, Lil’ Kim, and Virgil Abloh. It’s a story of how this music that came from Black, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx Americans living in the Bronx in the 1970s swallowed rapping whole and gave birth to a new inclusive culture, encompassing DJ’ing, breakdancing, and graffiti. Fifty years on, this show is a crash course in the impact of hip-hop on the visual culture and on artists working today.
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