Year: 2017

  • Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love @ de Young Museum, San Francisco

    Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love @ de Young Museum, San Francisco

    A grape. An interviewer asks the late designer Patrick Kelly to describe what captivated him about Paris. The Mississippi native smiles at the marketplace memory of biting into a juicy grape, revealing his keen appreciation for simplicity, as well as the sweetness that can supplant an acrid seed. I spoke with curator Laura Camerlengo and…

  • An Immense New Book Surveys the Work of More Than 300 African Artists

    An Immense New Book Surveys the Work of More Than 300 African Artists

    Zanele Muholi, Bhekezakhe, Parktown (2016), gelatin silver print, 50 × 35.9 centimeters. Photo © Zanele Muholi. Stevenson, Amsterdam, Cape Town and Johannesburg, and Yancey Richardson, New York One of the most expansive volumes of its kind, African Artists: From 1882 to Now compiles a broad sampling of works from more than 300 modern and contemporary artists…