As we strategy the primary anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Artwork Newspaper has revealed an investigation that raises severe issues that artistic endeavors taken by Russian troops from a museum in Kherson, Ukraine, in November 2022 might not be repatriated as soon as the combating ends. Our London correspondent Martin Bailey tells us about his story.
Set up from the 2019 Sharjah Biennial
Photograph: Aimee Dawson
Plus, the Sharjah Biennial opens subsequent week, and is the ultimate biennial curated by Okwui Enwezor, who died in 2019, however set the blueprint for the present, entitled Considering Traditionally within the Current. We speak to Nadine Khalil in regards to the biennial and Sharjah’s place within the Center Jap artwork ecosystem.
Ming Smith’s Invisible Man, Someplace, All over the place (1998)
Photograph: Museum of Trendy Artwork, © Ming Smith
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Invisible Man, Someplace, All over the place (1991/98) by the American photographer Ming Smith, a key piece in a brand new exhibition of Smith’s work on the Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York. Oluremi Onabanjo, the curator of the present, tells us in regards to the work.
• The Sharjah Biennial runs from 7 February to 11 June.
• Tasks: Ming Smith, Museum of Trendy Artwork, New York, 4 February-29 Might.
• Ming Smith: Invisible Man, Someplace, All over the place, by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Museum of Trendy Artwork, New York, 48pp, $14.95/£17 (pb)
