MANIFESTO

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MUSE TWENTY FANZINE

TO LOOK WITHOUT FEAR

2022.09.12

From September 12, 2022 until January 1, 2023 Wolfgang Tillmans: to look without fear invites the viewer to experience the artist’s vision of what it feels like to live today.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, the artist’s first museum survey in New York, in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. Unique groupings of approximately 350 of Tillmans’s photographs, videos, and multimedia installations are displayed according to a loose chronology throughout the Museum’s sixth floor. Informed by new scholarship and eight years of dialogue with the artist, the exhibition highlights how Tillmans’s profoundly inventive, philosophical, and creative approach is both informed by and designed to highlight the social and political causes for which he has been an advocate throughout his career. From the outset of his career, Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968, Germany) has revolutionized the prevailing conventions of photographic presentation, making connections between his pictures themselves in response to a given context and activating the space of the exhibition by hanging photographs in a corner, above a doorframe, on a free-standing column, or next to a fire extinguisher. In developing his own language for these overall installations, Tillmans’s practice verges into a sculptural dimension. The decisive logic of his practice is a visual democracy, best summarized by his phrase “If one thing matters, everything matters.” 

August self portrait (2005).
Lutz & Alex sitting in the trees (1992).
The Cock (kiss) (2002).
Tukan (Toucan, 2010).
Frank, in the shower (2015).

“I see my installations as a reflection of the way I see, the way I perceive or want to perceive my environment.”

– Wolfgang Tillmans

Icestorm (2001).
Venus transit (2004).
Concrete Column III (2021).

NIKKI MALOOF

AROUND THE CLOCK

2024.11.22

Beauty in everyday life

 

The mundane, the horrors, and everything in between, Maloof captures the everyday in her maximalist artworks.

SANG WOO KIM

THE SEER, THE SEEN

2024.11.21

Confronting his dual cultural upbringing, Sang Woo Kim invites us to pause, look, and question not just what we see, but how and why we see it.

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THE 80S: PHOTOGRAPHING BRITAIN

2024.11.20

Recording a changing Britain and capturing social change. Tate Britain explores the medium of photography and how it became a tool for social representation, cultural celebration, and artistic expression throughout the ‘80s.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Roe Ethridge. Happy Birthday Louise Parker

2024.02.21

Returned to the city as an important space for cultural dissemination, the exhibition floor unveils to the public for the first time the first part of the program that interweaves – with an international gaze – visual arts, fashion, design and the publishing scene. An unprecedented experience of discovery and fruition takes visitors through the environments in an ascending climax.

Miranda July: New Society

2024.02.21

Osservatorio Prada presents the first exhibition dedicated to the work of Miranda July that traces the 30-year career of the American artist, filmmaker and writer through her short films, performances and installations.