#traceybashkoff

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Science and spirit! If you're finding this moment to be chaotic, upsetting or just too weird and uninspiring, we highly recommend 'Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future'—a staff pick for Women's History Month, and a fitting collection of images for this bizarre moment. "The cycle focuses on the stages of life and humanity's connection to the universe," curator Tracey Bashkoff writes. "The mix of floral, geometric, and biomorphic forms with letters and inverted words creates a vocabulary of complex and shifting meanings, with which af Klint herself appears to have grappled. In these works a plant tendril may become a spiral, which in turn unfolds into a coiling line that then scribes a calligraphic letter—codes and words from an unknown language. Two pulsing orbs are, at the same time, microscopic eggs and intersecting solar systems. These forms continue to evade singular or stable interpretations—evolution, continuity, growth and progress all coexist with a return to the beginning of the oneness of the spirit. Science and spirit, mind and matter, the micro and the macro are simultaneously present." #hilmaafklint @guggenheim #spiritualism #traceybashkoff #science #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/B9rVYnopD6y/?igshid=17w4sz7ssmr50

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Last Tuesday I joined @arttableinc for a great talk by #traceybashkoff Director, Collections and Senior Curator of the @guggenheim It was a great treat to hear her speak and see the exhibition #hilmaafklint #loukyslife #guggenheimmuseum #arttable (at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtT0QfyFv5k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p7ogc5r72asd

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Congratulations Guggenheim Museum, Badlands Unlimited, MoMA and Editions Xavier Barral! “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,” “Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts,” “Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts,” “René d'Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation,” and “Masahisa Fukase” are the @nytimes art critics favorite art books of the year. @obertasmithnyt @jasonfarago #robertasmith #hollandcotter #jasonfarago @guggenheim #badlandsunlimited @themuseumofmodernart @editionsxavierbarral #hilmaafklint #traceybashkoff #whitewalling @invisible.flaneuse #brucenauman #kathyhalbreich #disappearingacts #renedharnoncourt #masahisafukase https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVriFfH2hk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qwwgnqz6ltu3

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"[Hilma af Klint’s paintings] blow open art history. The idea that a woman got there first, and with such style, is beyond thrilling… Her paintings definitively explode the notion of modernist abstraction as a male project." — @robertasmithnyt on ‘Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,’ curated by #traceybashkoff @guggenheim https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo35rYwHxj3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8b3qpdr2afq