An observation: Four major Manhattan museums are having individual one-person shows of four New York artists. At the whitneymuseum is asherald; themuseumofmodernart has the late
#JackWhitten, the guggenheim is opening a retrospective of
#RashidJohnson. metmuseum will open a survey of
#LornaSimpson. All four artists are represented by the prestigious hauserwirth
Last spring a similar harmonic convergence occurred with LaToya Ruby Fraizer and Alex Katz and Joan Jonas at MOMA.
Once, four artists from the same gallery would have raised eyebrows. Shown a lack of creative thinking. Or confirm a consolidation of artists at the top of the gallery chain.
Today: The art world is changing, becoming more open to Black artists and artists-of-color, women, queer, disabled, outsiders, and many others.
Even as America is under the knife, space is being made; attention is being paid.