SIDDHARTHA MITTER
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El Anatsui Builds Monumental Art From Daily Life
As his newest sculptures fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Ghanaian artist is returning to his roots and thinking about his legacy.
Nairy Baghramian Breaks Through With Metropolitan Museum Facade Commission
With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
At H.K.W. in Berlin, a New Energy Is Vibrating
Under the leadership of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Berlin’s once dowdy House of World Cultures now throbs with D.J. sets and transformative ideas.
A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes
An essential American outdoor sculpture has been sinking in the saltwater marsh for four decades — just as the artist, Beverly Buchanan, intended.
Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography
The Indian artist’s physical approach to making and presenting pictures chimes with their intimate content, as the largest exhibition of her work to date shows.
An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility
Torkwase Dyson distills stories of oppression and Black liberation into monumental artworks for her new show at Pace in New York.
On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History
Charles Gaines re-enters public art in a huge way with a rumbling sculpture that evokes America’s economy built from conquest and enslavement.
A Shining Moment of Pan-African Promise in a New Book
Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed FESTAC ’77, the immense gathering of Black artists in Nigeria. In ‘Last Day in Lagos,’ she shares her...
Bharti Kher’s Multi-Headed Goddess Statue Arrives at Central Park
A multi-headed mother figure by the sculptor Bharti Kher has arrived at Central Park. Its message is open to interpretation — and comfortable with contradiction.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden Is Not Running Away
An artist’s journey to establish her position in the world took her to the shooting range and produced a bold, original show.