For Nicholas Roeg’s adaptation of Insignificance, British artist David Hockney was commissioned to create a new portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Using collage and inspired by Monroe’s Playboy cover, he made an image of Teresa Russell as Monroe, lying on a wrinkled pink sheet. She looks at us and away from us, her body contorting in different directions. Cubist and postmodern in construction, it captures not only the fracturing impact of fame on the body, but also the paradoxical need for a sex symbol to be wanted and unwanted — willing and unwilling. Moving from Monroe’s first Playboy cover to...…For Nicholas Roeg’s adaptation of Insignificance, British artist David Hockney was commissioned to create a new portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Using collage and inspired by Monroe’s Playboy cover, he made an image of Teresa Russell as Monroe, lying on a wrinkled pink sheet. She looks at us and away from us, her body contorting in different directions. Cubist and postmodern in construction, it captures not only the fracturing impact of fame on the body, but also the paradoxical need for a sex symbol to be wanted and unwanted — willing and unwilling. Moving from Monroe’s first Playboy cover to...WW…

For Louise Bourgeois, the act of sewing was rich with meaning. Ripping, cutting, and stitching fabric reflected psychological states, reconfiguring childhood suffering, separation fears, and attempts at reparation and reconciliation. The Woven Child at Hayward Gallery is a powerful and moving examination of the fabric sculptures Bourgeois began to make in the last two decades of her life, drawing out themes of motherhood, gender, identity, and trauma. The exhibition opens with Bourgeois’s first forays into fabric and clothing, a significant departure from her decades of using...…For Louise Bourgeois, the act of sewing was rich with meaning. Ripping, cutting, and stitching fabric reflected psychological states, reconfiguring childhood suffering, separation fears, and attempts at reparation and reconciliation. The Woven Child at Hayward Gallery is a powerful and moving examination of the fabric sculptures Bourgeois began to make in the last two decades of her life, drawing out themes of motherhood, gender, identity, and trauma. The exhibition opens with Bourgeois’s first forays into fabric and clothing, a significant departure from her decades of using...WW…

The conference, titled “Telling the Truth about All This,” took place in front of just 100 attendants on Friday, April 29 in a beautiful wood-paneled room that was once Radcliffe College’s basketball court. It was a star-studded affair, drawing speakers from the highest echelons of Harvard’s professoriate and beyond. Among them were former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian Annette Gordon-Reed, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of the acclaimed novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. Ibram X. Kendi was the keynote speaker. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a...…The conference, titled “Telling the Truth about All This,” took place in front of just 100 attendants on Friday, April 29 in a beautiful wood-paneled room that was once Radcliffe College’s basketball court. It was a star-studded affair, drawing speakers from the highest echelons of Harvard’s professoriate and beyond. Among them were former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian Annette Gordon-Reed, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of the acclaimed novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. Ibram X. Kendi was the keynote speaker. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a...WW…

SAN FRANCISCO — In order to experience the passage of time, we must freeze it in place. This is the subtle paradox at the heart of Considered Interactions, a group show of black-and-white photography at Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco. The five artists included employ a range of tactics to activate space and time within the static image as a means of interrogating the medium’s ability to collapse both into a singular, suspended moment. Detail of John Divola, “ENSO: 36 Right-handed Gestures” (2018), AZO Gelatin silver contact prints mounted on archival mat board paper, 8 x 10 inches...…SAN FRANCISCO — In order to experience the passage of time, we must freeze it in place. This is the subtle paradox at the heart of Considered Interactions, a group show of black-and-white photography at Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco. The five artists included employ a range of tactics to activate space and time within the static image as a means of interrogating the medium’s ability to collapse both into a singular, suspended moment. Detail of John Divola, “ENSO: 36 Right-handed Gestures” (2018), AZO Gelatin silver contact prints mounted on archival mat board paper, 8 x 10 inches...WW…