An-My Lê and More
For TCT, I wrote about An-My Lê at Marian Goodman (excerpt below), Zito Madu (author of The Minotaur at Calle Lanza) reviewed American Artist’s Pioneer Works show, and Whitney Mallett (founder and editor of the Whitney Review) wrote about Camille Henrot at Hauser & Wirth. (If you would like to read this or other paywalled content and cannot subscribe to TCT—I understand—reply to this email requesting a link!)
The Malmstrom Air Force Base occupies a sprawling 3,728 acres of shortgrass prairie in central Montana. And it supports the operations of something much larger—a missile complex that stretches across 23,500 square miles, always standing ready for nuclear war. In “Dark Star / Grey Wolf,” An-My Lê’s exhibition on the ground floor of Marian Goodman Gallery’s new Tribeca headquarters, the artist presents seven aerial views of the area around the base. Installed on a concave wall to form a partial cyclorama, Grey Wolf, 2024—its title perhaps borrowed from the military aircraft of the same name—shows what appear to be launch facilities. Under a bright sky, we see service roads, fenced areas, and mysterious circles etched in the ground, punctuating vast, windswept expanses of the American West.[…]
In other news, a friend of mine is organizing a fundraiser for New Alternatives, which I will be helping with (more news about that soon), but I wanted to put this LGBTQ+ youth, direct-service organization on your radar in the meantime—and start raising money immediately. The need is, of course, especially urgent now as these kids are subjected to heightened attacks on healthcare and housing, deportation threats, abandonment, everything...
And here is the RSVP link for the Andrea Dworkin book event again (Picador is reprinting Woman Hating, Right Wing Women, and Pornography). It’s a week from tomorrow in Brooklyn.
(Also, New Yorkers, I know there are a million things to do, but tell Kathy Hochul to fire Eric Adams, I mean COME ON WTF.)