New for TCT: Jarrett Earnest on Harmony Hammond
I’m so happy to share Jarrett Earnest’s essay on the great Harmony Hammond this morning, focusing on the artist’s major exhibition, “FRINGE,” at SITE SANTA FE, on view now.
Jarrett and I recently spoke about art criticism and other things for his radio show Angelic Transmissions with Leigha Mason, now available in podcast form here. (I also highly recommend the Charles Atlas and Cynthia Daignault episodes. Angelic Transmissions is the best art podcast—no vapid chitchat.) Also: Jarrett just wrote a beautiful essay on the painter Sam McKinniss for Sam’s monograph, out next week. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
I went to MoMA on Monday to see Jack Whitten’s show, which you should not miss. It’s the kind of show that I visit more than once. (And, come to think of it, it’s interesting to think about this work with Hammond’s paintings…) On my way out of the museum, I walked quickly through the design show on 3 and stumbled upon the Frankfurt Kitchen, 1926, a nice surprise, and a reminder that, like Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, you should fight Nazis.(I can’t imagine she’d be pleased to be shown in the Philip Johnson Galleries and really who would be? Time to change that name.) I wrote about her kitchen when it was shown on the 5th Floor (for Artforum, here’s a PDF.) The CAMP show is also amazing.
See you in the streets Saturday! NYC: Bryant Park 1PM.