June 28 and 29, 2014. Here is what is coming up on the next Hyperallergic Weekend. John Yau offers a postscript to the recently concluded Whitney Biennial, in which he asks, and answers, questions such as: “Is it true that if you are a person of color (black, brown, yellow or red), the only way to get into the Biennial is to make work that deals with racial identity in a way that is acceptable? Who determines that agenda? If you go by the Whitney’s curatorial choices, the answer is obvious.” Thomas Micchelli discusses the Whitney’s much anticipated retrospective of Jeff Koons, whose work, “with few exceptions, reveals itself to be as thin, puerile and derivative as the artist’s harshest critics would expect. But to take Koons’s art to task for the hollowness at its core is shooting fish in a barrel — a truism that leads us nowhere.” Lucas Fagen, Hyperallergic Weekend’s music critic, concludes his June catalogue with First Aid Kit (“This album ought to explode any antiquated notions of authenticity held by those who value folksong’s genuine roots over its sincere charm”), EMA (“this is where she dumps her buckets of feedback all over her guitar and sets it on fire”), How to Dress Well (“an arty, atmospheric swamp”) and Jack White (“you have to wonder whether his conservative instincts are getting the better of him”). Guest writer Edward M. Gómez discusses the exhibition Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum: “AFAM’s offerings often convey, among other values and emotions, an abiding sense of hope — about how they can illuminate their users’ understanding of the material world or some spiritual realm, or human beings’ relationships with nature or with each other, or an individual’s or a community’s role in the nurturing of a democratic society.” Guest writer Carl Little surveys the work of painter Jon Imber: “In a way Imber pulled a reverse-Guston, moving from figuration to abstraction over the course of his painting life — without, however, ever completely denying any instinct or mode that might help him deliver a vision of the world.” And Weekend Words invokes the Fourth Amendment.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:26:13 +0000
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