Drawing Now: eight propositions. (Preview).MOMA QNS MOMA QNS Museum of Modern Art (NYC; temporary location in Queens through 2005) "Drawing is a verb," Richard Serra's bluntly provocative formulation, was the keynote back in 1976, when MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. organized its first "Drawing Now" survey. For the third go-round, curator Laura Hoptman turns the tables: "Drawing is a noun again," she notes wryly. But her show will do more than highlight a shift toward unapologetic objectmaking. The "Eight Propositions" of her title are essentially professional fields (animation, fashion, architecture, etc.) from which artists like Kara Walker Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary American artist who is best known for her exploration of race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her artworks. Walker was born in Stockton, California. , John Currin John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter. Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado, and went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he obtained a BFA in 1984. He went on to receive a MFA from Yale University in 1986. , Chris Ofili, and Takashi Murakami have adapted their often intricate and implicitly narrative iconographies. Whether or not "Drawing Now" succeeds in crystallizing the rhetorical temperament of so much recent art, it promises to be a pictorialist's banquet. Oct. 17-Jan. 6. |
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