With work by W.E.B.
Du Bois, Wolfgang Tillmans, and a new, old venue for the NY Art Book Fair.
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Every season in artis cause for hope.
The hum of this fall is thrilling, with revelations of graphic masterpieces by W.E.B.
Deconstructing Power: W.E.B.
They are also genuinely beautiful, featuring odd geometries, striated pyramids, and spirals, all prismatically colored.
It deserves to be on permanent view.
Witness visionary genius of form and material, imagination expressed in clay.
Tillmans may be the most important photographer of the late 20th century.
He is certainly one of the most dear.
Setting aside doctrinaire ideas of abstraction, Milhazes instead finds inspiration in the Brazilian Antropofagia movement.
Bodies turn into organic forms and landscapes blend with bodies, until the whole thing becomes voluptuous and seductive.
He is the Henri Rousseau of American outsider art, a self-taught optical shaman.
Bring your tote bag.
The processes he uses feel ancient, overlooked, and based in ritual, summoning the ghosts of slavery.
They were like creatures from Bruegel: wrapped like mummies, misshapen and Cronenbergian.
Any history of photography of the late 20th century should include this artist.
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