Intimate Views of Anonymous African-Americans

Intimate Views of Anonymous African-Americans

By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO

Published: November 13, 2008

Large-scale tableaus with drawings from the past decade by the well-regarded New York City-based African-American artist Whitfield Lovell are the subject of a powerful exhibition at the Hudson River Museum. It is the excruciating consciousness of the weight of history that makes these works so memorable, along with the fact that they are really beautiful.
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“Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time,”
Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton
Avenue, Yonkers, through May 10. Information: (914) 963-4550 or www.hrm.org.

COMPLICATED PILE

Complicated Pile

“A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist
Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss
museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window
before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

The art work, titled “Complex S(expletive..)”, is the size of a house.
The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in
Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children’s home,
said museum director Juri Steiner.” — Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

LessRoads photographed the installation at the Zentrum Paul Klee, prior to the flight of fancy.

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