Danielle Wu

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider |Danielle Wu |Imani Wiliford

The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history’s image, and the other way around. Lotus L. Kang’s assemblages at 52 Walker draw from diasporic memory, yet her draped film sculptures form an ongoing document of the exhibition’s idiosyncrasies of light and movement. Meanwhile, Rashid Johnson’s survey at the Guggenheim Museum draws from a dense network of Black intellectual thought, offering in turn a contemporary visual vernacular.

Oct 24, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Danielle Wu

EunsongKim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, traces the history of US museums to conceptual artists like Marcel Duchamp to dispel myths around artistic merit, avant garde art, and white male genius.

Jun 28, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Qingyuan Deng |Danielle Wu |Adams Adeosun |Claire Voon

Dutch artist Jennifer Tee recently concluded her New York debut Ancestral Beginnings, Sessile Beings at Tina Kim Gallery. Known for her versatile practice that traverses research, performance, installation, textiles, collage, and sculpture, and investigates what it means to live near and between borders, Tee created an exhibition that is both personal and political.

Nov 17, 2023 | frieze.com | Danielle Wu

In the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and the revocation of Roe v. Wade, the idea of rescuing women through their visuality appears to have reached a critical fatigue – at least in leftist circles in the US. But French-Egyptian-American artist Ghada Amer remains determined to iterate the need for women to pursue liberation in the symbolic and psychic realms as well as in their lived experience.