This week, Judith Stein writes about Elijah Pierce (1892-1984), the son of a former slave, who is hav
| This week, Judith Stein writes about Elijah Pierce (1892-1984), the son of a former slave, who is having a retrospective of more than 100 painted bas-reliefs and freestanding carvings at the Barnes Foundation. I was happy to be reminded that Pierce lived long enough to make two sculptures about President Richard Nixon: “Nixon Being Chased by Inflation” (1974) and “Nixon Being Driven from the Whitehouse” (1975). According to Stein, “Curators have suggested that his pursuers, holding what look like microphones, may represent Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.”— John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend | |
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| | Elijah Pierce’s Sermons in Wood Pierce gave visual form to the bitter truths of slavery, as well as to his own experience growing up in the Jim Crow South. Judith Stein |
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| George Condo’s Cutism Condo’s paintings play to his viewers’ sense of superiority; it gives them something to smile at without thinking too deeply into the work. John Yau |
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| J.M.W. Turner, the Modern A show at Tate Britain underscores Turner as the great recorder of elemental disorder and industrial pollution on the grand scale. Michael Glover |
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| Required Reading This week, queer Black art utopias, search engines are a problem, radiators and pandemics, a bad fortune cookie art project, Pornhub’s rape problem, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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