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As winner of the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim, Simone Leigh (b. 1968, Chicago) will be featured in the forthcoming solo exhibition, Loophole of Retreat, opening April 19, 2019 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Additionally, in 2017 Leigh was awarded the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Wein Artist Prize. This June, she will install Brick House, the largest freestanding sculpture yet commissioned by the High Line (for their new, fantastically named “Plinth” program), which will stand in marked contrast to, or perhaps even defiance of, its Hudson Yards architectural surroundings.

Although she considers herself primarily as having an object-based practice, exploring black female subjectivity and ethnography, some of Leigh’s most ambitious works have been in the realm of social practice. One such example was her Free People’s Medical Clinic, part of Creative Time’s sprawling 2014 program Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn in conjunction with the Weeksville Heritage Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant. For the 2015 Creative Time Summit, Leigh spoke about the project.

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

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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