“Floor Dance,” “Mane,” and “Loner,” by Tschabalala Self, who stitches figures from patches of fabric on canvas. In the foreground is “Toxic,” an installation by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz.Credit...Jake Naughton for The New York Times
September 28, 2017. By Holland Cotter.
The New Museum isn’t new any more. It hit 40 this year, by some reckonings early middle age, though it’s still thinking young, or youngish, and living in the now. One thing that made it feel fresh early on was that it did shows on themes no other museums were tackling, like the 1982 “Extended Sensibilities: Homosexual Presence in Contemporary Art,” the first major American institutional survey of work by gay and lesbian artists. Now comes another such venture, “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” a look at concepts of “trans” and “queer” as embodied in new art.
September 28, 2017