{"id":56249,"date":"2018-04-23T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56249"},"modified":"2018-04-23T00:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:34:12","slug":"adrian-piper-the-thinking-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56249","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-04-19<\/p>\n

Holland Cotter<\/a>,<\/strong> Co-Chief Art Critic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAdrian Piper\u2019s<\/a> \u201cSelf-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features,\u201d 1981. In all of her work, our critic writes, \u201cher aim is not to assert racial identity but to destabilize the very concept of it.\u201d
\nThe Eileen Harris Norton Collection, via Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She\u2019s an artist and scholar, and at \u201cA Synthesis of Intuitions\u201d you see thinking \u2014 about gender, racism, art \u2014 happening before your eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAdrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016<\/a>\u201d at the Museum of Modern Art<\/a> is a clarifying and complicating 50-year view of a major American artist\u2019s career. It is also an image-altering event for MoMA itself. It makes the museum feel like a more life-engaged institution than the formally polished one we\u2019re accustomed to.<\/p>\n

Despite the show\u2019s retrospective cast<\/a>, we find fiery issues of the present \u2014 racism, misogyny, xenophobia \u2014 burning in MoMA\u2019s pristine galleries. The reality that art and its institutions are political to the core \u2014 both for what they do and do not say \u2014 comes through. And the museum, for once, seems intent on asserting this. For the first time it has given over all of its sixth floor special exhibition space to a single living artist. The artist so honored is a woman, who has focused on, among many other things, the hard fact of racism and the fiction of race.<\/p>\n

Ms. Piper<\/a> was born in New York City<\/a> in 1948 to parents of mixed racial background. (Her father held two official birth certificates. In one he was designated white, in the other octoroon<\/a>, one-eighth black.) Raised in a cosmopolitan environment, she studied at the Art Students League<\/a> in her teens, and in 1966 enrolled at the School of Visual Arts<\/a>. The MoMA show opens with a salon-style hanging of figurative paintings, including self-portraits, from that time, influenced by 1960 psychedelic graphics and by her youthful experiences with LSD<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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