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The Americas | Art and the Political: 1960s and 1970s

Letícia Parente’s Video In (1975) in Context

Widely distributed in recent years and now in MoMA’s collection, the two-minute video depicts Parente entering a closet and hanging up her sweater without first removing it from her body.

Paulina Pardo Gaviria

Central & Eastern Europe | Art and Gender

Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska

In the 1960s, Zenta Dzividzinska was one of the few women photographers in Riga whose work was highly regarded in the local and international photo club culture. Her collection of images capturing the daily life of three generations of women living in a small house in the country, have remained largely unknown until recently.

Alise Tifentale

Southeast Asia | Art and Gender

Hello, My Name Is Tamarra

Artist and community organizer Tamarra reflects on the personal experiences, emotional complexities, socio-political events, and pilgrimages to non-binary communities across Indonesia that motivated Tamarra’s name change.

Tamarra

Southern Africa | One Work, Many Voices

Remembering and Forgetting in Sue Williamson’s For Thirty Years Next to His Heart

On view in the David Geffen Wing until October 25, 2021, this text considers the passbook, recorded and framed by Sue Williamson, as an object that has survived to bear testimony to the presentness of the past.

Nkgopoleng Moloi

Southeast Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Modify Your Dissent: A Performance on the Streets of Yangon

Eschewing assumptions about the absence of artistic and political agency under so-called “undemocratic” circumstances, Chaw Ei Thein and Htein Lin’s public performance Mobile Market / Mobile Gallery speaks to the prevalence—and symbiosis—of art and political action in Burma.

Simon Wu

The Americas | Art and the Political: 1960s and 1970s

Having a Coke with Marisol and Frank O’Hara

This text brings together Marisol’s sculpture Love and Frank O’Hara’s poem “Having a Coke with You” to explore their shared investigations of the personal in a capitalistic landscape, queer eroticism, global Cold War politics, and stoppered versus flowing communication.

Delia Solomons

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

On Forms of Political Organizing Illuminating the Future

In this interview, Belarusian curators Aleksei Borisionok and Anna Chistoserdova discuss the recent political upheavals in Belarus and their impact on the local art scene.

Inga Lāce, Aleksei Borisionok and Anna Chistoserdova

Southern Africa | Art and the Political: 1960s and 1970s

Malangatana as Anti/Colonial Subject (1959–74)

This text is a shortened version of a presentation made to C-MAP Africa group in October 2020 on Mozambican modernist, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya.

Mario Pissarra

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Making Waves: A Conversation with Laura Anderson Barbata

In this interview, Mexican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Laura Anderson Barbata highlights the importance of reciprocity and shared knowledge in her community-based, trans-disciplinary practice.

Laura Anderson Barbata and Madeline Murphy Turner

Central & Eastern Europe

Constant Care for the Memory of Dissent

In an effort to consider the varied impacts of COVID-19 — a virus with a global reach — post has interviewed curators and directors from vital museums and galleries around the world about how the pandemic has affected their ideas regarding programming, civic engagement, and the role of the institution.

Inga Lāce and Daniel Muzyczuk

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Cumbre Aconcagua. Part III: La memoria del agua (The Memory of Water)

This conference series, organized by the Cisneros Institute, looks at the history of water management in the Americas through the interdisciplinary work of artists, theorists, historians, and local communities.

Camila Marambio, Marisol de la Cadena and Cecilia Vicuña

Africa | One Work, Many Voices

Collaboration and Studio Photography: Sanlé Sory’s and Ambroise Ngaimoko’s Portraits

This essay considers the photographic work of Sanlé Sory and Ambroise Ngaimoko as part of the flourishing music, cinema, and art scenes in Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where studio photography was a part of the creative expression and self-styling of these nascent republics.

Rachel Remick

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notes on art in a global context

post is The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. It is the public face of Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a cross-departmental, internal research program at MoMA that fosters the multiyear study of art histories outside North America and Western Europe.

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