The protests that derailed the Museum of West African Art’s opening reveal that neocolonial donor money and weak local patronage made it unfit for purpose
Unmissable shows in New York this May include “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” The Whitney Biennial, and surveys of Marian Zazeela, Terry Fox and Joan Jonas
The group show at MoMA PS1 reflects on the history of artist-cultivated gardens, from Tom Burr’s dioramas of The Ramble in Central Park to Poncili Creación’s defiant garden gnomes