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Back to New York

6 May 2022

Back to New York
I am looking forward to getting back to London, but there is so much to see in New York! We excitedly went to Park Avenue Armoury to see Rashaad Newsome’s show ‘Assembly’ which was a superb immersive experience
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He had created something magical in exploring the structures of oppression in search of Black liberation
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The exhibition is about the role of voguing in Black queer culture
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The Daata Shop was awesome. You can buy prints that reflect luxury brands such as LV and Hermes, whilst explicitly embracing Blackness
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Peter Fleissig came for a visit as I was making dinner. We are both suited up for business!
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We visited some beautiful new collector homes. Here is Poju standing next to a great new Kusama Pumpkin
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In London at the Collection, it was the end of our painting show which will be missed
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We stop off at PPOW to admire the new works by Elizabeth Glaessner called ‘Phantom Tail’ where the artist is researching the emotional world by mining the unconscious, using bold strong colours and layering oil over pigment to create portals into a mythological world
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At David Zwirner was great work by Nikita Gale which was a treat; full of light, history, politics and sound
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In ‘End of Subject’, Gale recasts and destabilises the notion of witnessing destabilisation, representation and visibility
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Then the last stop is the Faurschou Foundation on the way to the airport. The show presents itself with Mona Hatoum’s marbles, which represent global fragility
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The next room showed Tiffany Chung’s detailed glass animal piece ‘from the mountains to the valleys, from the deserts to the seas: journeys of historical uncertainty’, which fills the space with thousands of small figures, with Shirin Neshat’s piece ‘Speechless’ in the background
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I must admit I had a little pang of envy when I saw this epic project of Liu Xiaodong’s expedition to Greenland, ‘UUMMANNAQ’. Liu is a leading figure in the Chinese realist painters. The next day we were on our way to Amsterdam!