Nari Ward Wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize for Immigrant Artists
Iman Issa, Meleko Mokgosi, and Carlos Motta awarded Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise
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When I first read Ernest J. Gaines’s novel A Lesson Before Dying (1993), which is set in 1940s Cajun country, I held out hope that Grant Wiggins, the schoolteacher protagonist, would somehow free…
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From the Archives: Work in Progress
Because of prior commitments, Paris-based Chinese artist Chen Zhen is one of the first to complete his installation. Titled&Prayer Wheel, it is surrounded by a crushed-paper temple which suggests…
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When Is an Artwork Finished?
For some artists, a work is done when it leaves the studio. Others keep tinkering in the galleries. One waits for the piece to "cry uncle"
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Nari Ward: Poetic Justice
With haunting juxtapositions of objects at once fragile and grandiose, the Jamaica-born artist comments on liberty, democracy, and his own story as an immigrant
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North By South: Q+A With Nari Ward
The title of Nari Ward's show at Mass MoCA, "Sub Mirage Lignum," refers to the wood of the lignum vitae tree native to Jamaica, which is used to make cheap tourist items. But the name of the tree…
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Tackling the multivalent subject of support—with its implication of preexisting threat—“LIVESupport,” Nari Ward’s first solo show at Lehmann Maupin, included a roomful of sculptures (all works 2010)…
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