On Monday night, the L.A. Library Foundation’s ALOUD program will host a conversation featuring two esteemed African writers — except that one of them, Richard Ali a Mutu, won’t be in the room. Ali a ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wangechi Mutu has been pushing the conservators to their limit. The Kenyan-American artist, 52, developed a ...
If there is one word that sums up the Wangechi Mutu retrospective at the New Museum, it’s this: spooky. The twenty-year survey, Intertwined, invites viewers on an eerie walk through realms of magic, ...
The pair of sculptures look like fantastical beings that are part human, part plant. Gnarled limbs of bronze and soil seem to extend from their bodies into the floor of the Lobby Gallery of The New ...
Right now the New Museum has been transformed into an otherworldly scene, all thanks to Wangechi Mutu. Blending folklore and science in a striking manner, the artist’s big show gives us massive bronze ...
Mutu, who lives in Nairobi and Brooklyn, is the star of a show at New York's New Museum. Her art takes on viruses, genocide, junk mail (the... The pair of sculptures look like fantastical beings that ...