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Going Dark: The Guggenheim


Wilfrid

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This one fills the rotunda.

I had put off seeing it after witnessing a curious panel discussion in the Gugg theater some weeks ago. Connections had been made, not unreasonably, between the exhibit and Kayla Farrish’s brilliant dance piece “Put away the fire, dear.” The panel discussion featured the curator and two other women of obvious intelligence and sincerity talking like critical theory textbooks while Kayla wriggled on her stool like someone who would much rather be dancing.

But of course it’s fine when you can just enjoy the art. Does all this talk about the erasure of the subject pussyfoot around the show’s real theme which is the erasure of the black subject (plus indigenous, Arabic…)? And isn’t part of the meaning of the show’s title that this is exclusively a show of artists of color (and mainly women)?

Never mind, there’s good Faith Ringgold, Kerry James Marshall, some contemporary artists I didn’t know and a huge dose of Ming Smith.
 

 

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