Inside Lorna Simpson’s Multilayered World
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Inside Lorna Simpson’s Multilayered World
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Is All This Self Monitoring Making Us Paranoid?
If you look down at a stranger’s finger, you may see a gold band wrapped around their pointer rather than their ring finger. Launched in 2013, the Oura ring collects and tracks personal and health data—your activity levels, sleep quality and daytime stress—and quantifies it into scores. But there may be an emotional downside to our newfound dependence on biometric tools and tracking. Madison Malone Kircher breaks down the pros and cons in the technology tracking our biology; is there a point in which we may know too much about our bodies?
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In 2019, a groundbreaking exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum unveiled a relevantly unknown female artist whose work would upend the art world’s understanding of the course of modernism. Working in the late 19th and early 20th century, Swedish artist Hilma Af Klint’s abstract and mystically-grounded work predated cornerstone figures within modernism such as Kadinsky. In this episode of Dialogues: The David Zwirner podcast, art historians Briony Fer, who recently curated Hilma Af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, and Julia Voss, author of Hilma Af Klint: A Biography, talk to host Helen Molesworth about Af Klint’s spiritual praxis, legacy and possible artistic influences.
DIALOGUES: THE DAVID ZWIRNER PODCAST
When fashion brands began publicly contending with their environmental impact, sustainability was once the buzzy term within the fashion industry. But recently major brands, even those which self-identify and market themselves as “sustainable,” have started shrinking environmentally-focused efforts and practices. To uplift designers who utilize eco practices, the Swedish Fashion Council launched the Challenge The Fabric Award to match young designers with sustainable fashion producers. Writer Steff Yotka breaks down the participating designers and their idiosyncratic approaches to crafting eco-friendly clothes.
i-D
Last week, the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival was held in the South of France. British photographer Dereck Ridgers, known for capturing film and street subcultures throughout the 70s and 80s, collection of photographs throughout his time at the festival was recently published by IDEA books. Ridgers has described Cannes as a “festival of exhibitionism” and the book —aptly titled Cannes— is laden with spectacles of stardom and cultural figureheads at a time when photography was not accessible to all through our phones. In this interview with Fatima Khan, Ridgers describes his various Cannes experiences and the actors and directors that shaped his photographic perspectives at the festival. We learn about Ridgers’ friendly approach to his subjects and some stories behind iconic images of figures like Spike Lee and Robert Altman.
A RABBIT’S FOOT
Lorna Simpson is an artist who has reshaped the notion of representation and identity within contemporary artistic portraiture, creating complex multimedia collages of Black women. The first museum survey of her career thus far, Source Notes, recently opened at the Met. Julian Lucas wonderfully writes about Simpson’s personal history—how she became an artist and found her distinct methodology—and the development of her practice up until now.