Galeria
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Celebrates 50th Anniversary with New York Gala
By Galerie editors
- Thu Nov 14 2024
The evening was a special and star-studded occasion where many of the art world’s best and brightest came together to celebrate one another and their contributions to American art and culture. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden officially opened on October 4, 1974, a few years after financier Joseph Hirshhorn donated almost 6,000 pieces of modern art and sculptures to the federal government. Today, it is the national museum of modern and contemporary art and a leading voice for 21st-century art and culture, presenting trailblazing, contemporary artists while honoring its rich legacy.
Hirshhorn New York
Hirshhorn New York Gala: 50 artist honorees for the 50th anniversary
A memorable toast to 50 artist honorees for the 50th anniversary. The Museum will also present the first-ever Hirshhorn Leader in the Arts Award to internationally renowned architect, art collector, and arts patron Peter Marino.
2024 artist honorees will include many of the most recognizable and influential artists of our time, artists whose work has been central to the life and history of the Museum.
FINANCIAL TIMES
Reading — the everyday luxury that opens hearts and minds Books invite us to reflect on a multiplicity of worlds .
Enuma Okoro
- Fri Oct 25 2024
I am regularly drawn to the work of contemporary Kenyan artist Wangari Mathenge. Her 2021 painting “The Ascendants XIX (Her Things Are Here)” gives an overview of a green table with cosmetic items, make-up bags and flowers arranged on its surface. We also see a pair of women’s hands with slim fingers. The right hand stirs a cup of coffee and the left cradles a book, the thumb serving as a place marker. It seems such a simple, commonplace scene. But what I like so much about this work is its sense of perspective.
Surface Magazine
Wangari Mathenge Drifts Into Hypnagogic Repose
Ryan Waddoups
- Fri Sep 27 2024
Observing footage of her own sleeping body in semi-lucid reverie and painting her fluctuating states, the Kenya-born artist captures altered states of consciousness as hallucinatory windows into the unknown.
WNYC
All Of It - Artist Wangari Mathenge's New Show
Alison Stewart
- Thu Sep 05 2024
After working in the global financial market for years, Wangari Mathenge began focusing on art full time just 5 years ago. Her latest installation at the Nicola Vassell Gallery, Bedimmed Boundaries: Between Wakefulness and Sleep, explores the periods of alternate consciousness
Culture type
When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History’ at Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Recent Acquisitions by Artists of Color, Women, and Queer Artists
Victoria L. Valentine
- Tue Aug 13 2024
On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions
Nearly 60 works by 50 artists working in a range of mediums are featured. Many of the selections are recent
acquisitions. The diverse, intergenerational slate of participating artists includes Michael Armitage, Mark
Bradford, Garrett Bradley, Anthony Cudahy, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Sky Hopinka, Rashid
Johnson, Rachel Jones, Simone Leigh, Wangari Mathenge, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy (1917-2004),
Tavares Strachan, Nari Ward, Charles White (1918-1979), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), and potter David
Drake (1800-1865), among others. CT
Art Basal
These Black Female Painters Use Fashion to Celebrate Heritage, Pride, and Power
Stephanie Sporn
- Tue Aug 06 2024
For centuries, painters have taken creative liberties when depicting their sitters’ attire, whether for sheer visual impact or to imbue their works with symbolic significance. This phenomenon, in which the artist doubles as stylist, has been the subject of recent solo shows, including exhibitions on Gilded Age master, John Singer Sargent, and purveyor of contemporary cool, Barkley L. Hendricks. Today, a new generation of sartorially savvy artists are leading the charge, capturing clothing to stunning effect – but rather than merely painting fashion, these women consider style as a means to convey notions of heritage, pride, and power.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento California
Conversation on the Collection - Wangari Mathenge
Conversation on the Collection - Wangari Mathenge.
The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of the largest international ceramics collections in the U.S., and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art. The Crocker Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
Revue Lisieres
Women Sitting (Book)
Sylvie Camet
- Mon Jul 01 2024
For reasons that are difficult to pinpoint, studies of painting have omitted a specific motif, that of the women depicted sitting alone in their interior; yet, this representation crosses centuries and continents with remarkable insistence. The’ book takes over this neglected subject, proposing three readings. L’une, purely visual, offering from page to page a gallery of paintings of various notoriety; the second, of sociological nature, is, s’ endeavoring to examine the implications of this posture and the causes of its recurrence; the last finally, of’a more creative order, affixing to the works short texts of’a free fiction.
Kunstmuseum Basel
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
Tandazani Dhlakama, Koyo Kouoh
- Sat May 25 2024
How have artists from the African continent and its diaspora experienced and artistically processed everyday life over the last 100 years? To answer this question, the team led by Koyo Kouoh, Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa, undertook intensive research. The result is a comprehensive show that brings together works by 156 artists: a kaleidoscope dedicated to African figurative painting of the last 100 years. The museum has thus succeeded in creating a ground-breaking exhibition that demands to be seen - and which will find its way to the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2024.
The Green Gallery
Moreover: 50 Paintings, pt 3
Michelle Grabner
- Fri May 17 2024
Moreover: 50 Paintings is the sister exhibition to the Milwaukee Art Museum’s, Paintings, contemporaneous exhibitions that together feature the work of one hundred artists. Organized as a ‘survey,’ Moreover also celebrates contemporary painting’s pluralistic leanings while furthering comparative analysis in the visual language.
BBC World Service
In The Studio
Anna Bailey
- Tue Apr 30 2024
For this In The Studio, arts journalist Anna Bailey follows Wangari as she creates her second immersive experience at the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. It’s a life-sized replica of her Nairobi studio and this is where she invited 20 female domestic workers to have a day of rest, while also painting large-scale portraits of them for a new series of work which celebrates female domestic workers in Kenya.
The Dallas Morning News
When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History
Dallasnews.com
- Sun Apr 07 2024
Explore the complexities of visibility in our latest exhibition, When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History. The exhibition aims to broaden and complicate official histories and their corresponding visual strategies to allow for richer representations of those who have been traditionally excluded or erased.
i-D Magazine
Wangari Mathenge's Paintings Reframe Kenya's Domestic Workers
In a painting from the series A Day of Rest, the London and Chicago based painter Wangari Mathenge depicts three women sitting by the fireplace in her studio in Kenya. Subtitled Kemunto, Mary and Sarah (2023), a short-haired lady in a green dress places her hand on one of her friend’s foreheads as they stare back at her, resting their hand on her shoulder. The third woman gazes into the distance while the pair interact. While it is unclear exactly what is happening in the piece, Wangari paints the details of their braids and afro-textured hair, their nonchalant facial expressions and the colours of their clothes, with a carefulness, warmth and precision.