Artists Tanya Aguiñiga and Sanford Biggers Win $250,000 Heinz Awards
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What Quilts Mean Now
Treating quilts as encoded visual testaments, "Fabric of a Nation," now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, culminates a fifty-year evolution in critical thought.
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One Work: Sanford Biggers’s “7 Heavens”
In adding new symbols to an antique quilt, Sanford Biggers connects African American material culture to present struggles for Black liberation.
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ARTnews in Brief: Alison Jacques Gallery Now Represents Carol Rhodes—and More from December 11, 2020
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Hirshhorn Adds New Sculptures to Collection and More: Morning Links from August 17, 2020
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Sought-After Guggenheim Fellowships Go to Sanford Biggers, Zoe Leonard, Sky Hopinka, More
Steffani Jemison, Eric Gottesman, and A. L. Steiner are also among the winners.
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Using Antique Quilts, Sanford Biggers Creates an Afrofuturist History of the Underground Railroad
As Biggers has described, his quilt works, which he began making in 2012, allude to the—probably apocryphal—practice of using quilts to mark safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.
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‘Because Art Uplifts!’: New York Foundation for the Arts Inducts Sanford Biggers, Karl Kellner, Min Jin Lee to Hall of Fame
In a former bank in New York's Lower East Side, NYFA held its annual benefit.
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‘Lines of Fracture’ at David Castillo Gallery, Miami
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From the Archives: Sanford Biggers on ‘Juggling Cultural Signs,’ in 2000
The artist discusses merging break-dancing, Buddhism, and much more.
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