San Francisco-based artist Olivia Ting, one of the 2022/2023 CripTech Fellows.

Experiments in Art
On view through January 13, 2024, Leonardo/International Society for Arts + Sciences + Technology presents Experiments in Art, Access & Technology (E.A.A.T.), an exhibition premiering new work by artists Meesh Fradkin, Carmen Papalia, Josephine Sales, Andy Slater and Olivia Ting. The multidimensional installations were developed in Leonardo CripTech Incubator, a California-based art and technology fellowship that includes residencies, workshops and presentations where artists with disabilities can reimagine creative technologies through the lens of accessibility. E.A.A.T. emerges from a broader program under Leonardo CripTech Incubator that links artists, communities, institutions and ways of knowing through the full cycle of creative access.  

A rendering of the Great Hall, part of the National Museum of Women in the Arts renovation project. Rendering by Sandra Vicchio & Associates, LLC, with Marshall Craft Associates, Inc.

NMWA reopens
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. is reopening on October 21 after a major renovation. The historic building’s transformation will be highlighted by immersive exhibitions showcasing powerful works by contemporary women artists and a bold thematic reimagining of its stellar collection of international art spanning six centuries. The world’s first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists, NMWA has expanded and enhanced the visitor experience with new exhibition spaces, enlarged public programming areas, enhanced amenities and increased accessibility.

The cover for In a Time of Witness. Courtesy the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.

In a Time of Witness
The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art is publishing an innovative twist to a collection catalog. In a Time of Witness generates new scholarship around works of art through original poems and short stories from some of the most celebrated writers of our time. The book pairs stunning imagery from the Stanley collection with new literary interpretations from 31 alumni of the University’s renowned writing programs, including multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, U.S. Poets Laureate and National Medal recipients. Artists whose works can be seen within the publication include such noteworthy names as Gordon Parks and Jackson Pollock. “Powerful and intimate, the stories and poems in this publication seem to have been written with the artists rather than about them and their work,” says Lauren Lessing, director of the Stanley Museum of Art.

Faith Ringgold, Black Light Series #12: Party Time, 1969, oil on canvas, 59¾ x 85½”. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland. © 2023 Faith Ringgold/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz.

Faith Ringgold solo show
Faith Ringgold, artist, author and educator, needs no introduction. She’s one of the most “influential cultural figures of her generation, with a career linking the multidisciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today,” according to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. An upcoming exhibition at the museum titled Faith Ringgold: American People highlights 60 years of Ringgold’s artistic vision, drawing from her life as an artist and mother, as well as her experiences and struggles with social justice and equity. This is the first Chicago-based solo exhibition of Ringgold’s work and the most comprehensive to date. The exhibition runs from November 18, 2023, to February 25, 2024.

Elizabeth Turk, Passage 14, 2015-23, marble and gold leaf, 12 x 23 x 2½”

Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone
Hirschl & Adler Modern is holding an exhibition starting October 21 featuring 23 hand-carved marble sculptures made over the past decade by artist Elizabeth Turk. The exhibition examines the change caused by technological advances like the ubiquitous keyboard (and computer fonts) as well as AI, questioning the transformation of everyday handwriting. The gallery poses such questions as, “What happens when the curved lines of a scripted passage no longer hold meaning, or even exist? Or when the generations of tomorrow merely glance at a handwritten letter, fail to understand it, cannot decipher it, and simply move on, losing the nuances to history?” This new body of work by Turk will be on view at Hirschl & Adler Modern through December 15. —