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Southern Africa | A Global Museum

Interview with Storm Janse van Rensburg

In an effort to consider the variegated impacts of COVID-19—a virus with a global reach—we interviewed curators and directors from institutions around the world about how the pandemic has affected their institutions.

Nene Aissatou Diallo and Storm Janse van Rensburg

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Central & Eastern Europe

Screening Series: From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures

Artists reflect upon the role infrastructures of energy play in implementation of (geo)politics and emphasize the effects that exerts on the environment.

Lukas Brasiskis and Inga Lāce

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

A New Materiality: Neri Oxman’s Craft for the Biological Age

The exhibition Neri Oxman: Material Ecology shows the architect’s practice at the intersection of nature and computation. Her dynamic approach, though rooted in the modernist tradition, brings together material science, digital fabrication technologies, and organic design.

Anna Burckhardt

Central & Eastern Europe

Post-Catastrophic Museums of Care

In an effort to consider the variegated impacts of COVID-19—a virus with a global reach—post interviewed Zdenka Badovinac about how the pandemic has affected conceptions and practices of programming, civic engagement, and care.

Zdenka Badovinac, Sarah Lookofsky and Ana Janevski

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Forms of Care: Guadalupe Maravilla’s Disease Thrower #5 and Circle Serpent

The performative installation made by Salvadoran American artist Guadalupe Maravilla, recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, offers a ritual space both for disease and healing.

Rachel Remick and Simon Wu

Western Africa | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

The Ever Young Photographer James Barnor

James Barnor (b.1929) is a pioneering figure in Ghanaian photography. He documented the decolonizing processes and realities of the postcolonial context in Ghana, as well as the diasporic, metropolitan life in London.

Léllé Demertzi

Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

The Global Present

Achille Mbembe reflects on the global present and observes a recurring demand for durability in a planet in need of political and aesthetic repair.

Achille Mbembe

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo in Conversation with Thomas J. Lax

In this conversation the two discuss Pilar’s artistic formation; her use of family lore and fabulation in her interventions into the silences of the state archive; and her interests in science and digital technology.

Thomas J. Lax and Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo

Africa | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

The Planetary: the Globes of Globalization and Global Warming

Is the globe of globalization the same as the globe of global warming?

Sarah Lookofsky, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ann Stoler, Jumana Manna and Joseph P. Masco

Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

The Multiplication of Perspectives: Objects in Circulation

The panel examines historical cases of the migration of images and knowledge across cultures and temporalities.

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Cécile Fromont and Prajna Desai

East Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Global Resonance, Belonging, and the Artist Abroad: Okamoto Tarō in Paris

Okamoto Tarō recollects his experiences in Paris between 1929 and 1940, discusses the Abstraction-Création movement and reflects on his time at the Sorbonne and Musée de l’Homme.

Stephanie M. Hohlios

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Poema Colectivo 2020

In the spirit of collectivity despite geographical distance, post invited contributions to create a “collective poem” based on the 1981 project Poema Colectivo Revolución by the artists’ group Colectivo 3.

Nene Aissatou Diallo

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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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