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“It’s the first time I’ve had so much of my work in one space together, and work that goes back a long time now. To see so much of it in the same space is… I’m still getting used to it!” —Huma Bhabha

Sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962, Karachi) enjoyed an acclaimed run in the summer of 2018 with her rooftop commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, We Come in Peace – through May 27, 2019. In the spring of 2019, she was featured in the largest yet survey of her work, They Live at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Continuing on the sci-fi-esque theme from her Met rooftop commission, Bhabha’s otherworldly and grotesque sculptures and drawings reflect on the disorienting and disquieting effects of humanity in our modern age.

For this video, the ICA Boston visited Bhabha in her Poughkeepsie, NY studio and at the foundry where her bronze sculptures are cast, to discuss her practice, and for a behind-the-scenes look specifically at the creation of the bronze work Benaam (2018) – one of the figures in We Come in Peace.

Museums

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MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

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MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

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MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

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MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

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MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

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GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

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GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

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GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

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GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

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VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

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STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

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STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

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STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

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STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

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PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

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LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

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COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

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PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

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LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

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MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

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MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

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MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

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MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

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MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time