Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
Jimmie Durham reflects on the ways self-portraits both reveal and hide information, and what it means “to be a citizen of the world.” Watch the Video.
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Coming Face to Face With Jimmie Durham
The sculptor’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum is a “brilliant, half-century-long act of politically driven self-invention,” our critic writes. “I feel fairly sure that I could address the entire world if only I had a place to stand,” the peripatetic American artist Jimmie Durham said in the 1980s. Now he has that place: the fifth […]
NYT Review: New Whitney Museum’s First Show, ‘America Is Hard to See’
From outside, Renzo Piano’s new Whitney Museum of American Art, set beside the Hudson River, has the bulk of an oil tanker’s hull. Inside is entirely different. The galleries, with high ceilings, tall windows and soft pine-plank floors, are as airy and light-flooded as the 19th-century sailmaker’s lofts known to Herman Melville, who worked as […]