Weekend: Clare Grill, Gilbert & George, Henrik Olesen

This week there was much to absorb, reflect upon, and, if these tumultuous events are to have any mea

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This week there was much to absorb, reflect upon, and, if these tumultuous events are to have any meaning, act upon. In Natalie Haddad’s review of the painter Henrik Olesen, she notes that “Having knowledge or information withheld is a form of control that enables oppression.”Before the omnipresence of cell phones, the facts about police violence were known chiefly to those who experienced it firsthand. We can all now, as the prosecutor in Minneapolis put it, believe our eyes. What will be done with that information and the responsibility it imposes?— Albert Mobilio, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

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Clare Grill’s Untranslatable Paint Grill’s diaphanous brushstrokes and floating forms express a world in a state of unavoidable change. John Yau

Henrik Olesen’s Formless, Transgressive Bodies For much of his career, Olesen has confronted both psychological and physical violence, perpetrated by power structures against non-normative bodies. Natalie Haddad

Levan Mindiashvili's Childhood Memories A horticultural grow light overhead bathes Levan Mindiashvili’s installation, what color is the Black Sea?, at Marisa Newman Projects, in a warm, magenta Louis Bury

SPONSORED George Washington University’s Corcoran School Announces New Director Lauren Onkey, currently the senior director of NPR Music, will lead the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design beginning July 12.

Gilbert & George, Full of Themselves Again How should we take all this buffoonery? In part, it looks like satire. But what exactly are they poking fun at? Michael Glover

John Giorno's Beautifully Disgruntled Poem-Paintings Giorno sets up your expectations and then pulls the rug out. John Yau

Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections “This past year has compelled me to look closer, and to look for that which I don’t know how to look for.” Stephen Maine

Required Reading This week, defining “carceral heritage,” the story of a teen in the infamous Kent State photograph, considering Nicolas de Staël, digital blackface, and more. Hrag Vartanian

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