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From left: Wangechi Mutu, 50, multimedia artist, and Priscilla Aleman, 32, multimedia artist, photographed during the installation of Mutu’s retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art ...
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 "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.
Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu wades among large waves while singing “Amazing Grace” in her native Kikuyu language in a film included in her solo show, “Intertwined,” at the New Orleans ...
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 ...
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined. Through June 4, The New Museum, 235 Bowery, Manhattan, newmuseum.org. Roberta Smith, the co-chief art critic, regularly reviews museum exhibitions, art fairs and ...
Wangechi Mutu’s solo exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art weaves magazine clippings, papier-mâché and polished bronze into a lush style.
Installation view of Wangechi Mutu, "In Two Canoe" (2022), bronze, 180 x 68 x 72 inches, edition 1/3 (all images courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, photos by David Regen, unless otherwise ...
Maria Cornejo has collaborated with artist Wangechi Mutu to mark the artist’s forthcoming solo survey exhibition at the New Museum in Manhattan. Cornejo, a longtime fan of the Kenyan-born artist ...
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 "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.
Wangechi Mutu’s new exhibition at Galleria Borghese unfolds like a poem in the Baroque trove of archetypal truths that define this historical gem in Rome. With “Black Soil Poems,” the Kenya ...
Expect strange beings, mythical creatures and a unique feminist view. Artist Wangechi Mutu is known for her fantastical collages, sculptures and videos that explore the roles of Black women in ...
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 "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.