Art Cities To Watch 2021: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Carolina Herrera’s creative director Wes Gordon staged a show devoted to ballet-core that he stated embraced the Renzo Piano–designed museum’s modern strains. Depicting two pairs of intertwined disembodied arms, the artwork diverges from conventional monuments by omitting clear facial representations or standard portrayal. While social media buzzed with ridicule, defenders praised the sculpture’s poetry. Martin Luther King III counseled the work for its symbolic unity, emphasizing its capacity to unite communities.
But this present suggests that when painters like Claude Monet and Edgar Degas began painting outside their studios, breaking a taboo for …
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