Kerry James Marshall gets a profile in the Financial Times this week, with the paper profiling and exploring the impact of his work. “Because I make figures does not mean that making work that appears to be abstract is not available to me, ” he says.
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Carrie Mae Weems gets a profile in the NYT this week, documenting her early life and the evolution of her groundbreaking photographic practice in conjunction with her socially-engaged practice regarding violence in black communities and against the same communities by the police. “There are days, especially when we’re editing, when we just leave the studio in a shambles, or we’re just too mentally exhausted to look at another image of someone being shot,” she says. “But as much as I’m engaged with it, with violence, I remain ever hopeful that change is possible and necessary, and that we will get there. I believe that strongly, and representing that matters to me: a sense of aspiration, a sense of good will, a sense of hope, a sense of this idea that one has the right, that we have the right to be as we are.”
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The New York Times takes a deep look at Okwui Enwezor’s ouster from Munich’s Haus der Kunst, profiling the management issues, flagging sales and strange controversies that led to his termination, including government surveillance after a number of Scientologists were discovered working in the museum. “Enwezor had too many scandals to handle at once,” says Isabell Zacharias, a spokeswoman from the center-left Social Democratic Party in the Bavarian Parliament. “Enwezor is not a manager. He’s a great artist, but artists are not managers.”
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