![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Building on previous surveys mounted by the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Neuberger Museum of Art in Upstate New York, the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland, the New Museum show is Ringgold’s biggest to date. It can often seem as though there’s nothing that Ringgold, now 91, hasn’t been able to do successfully, a line of thinking that’s only reinforced by her New Museum retrospective, which opened in New York on Thursday. “Creativity,” she once told ARTnews, “is empowering.” ![]() All of these activities made Ringgold one of today’s most inventive artists. (In 1970, John Hightower, a former director of that institution, once wrote her and artist Tom Lloyd a letter saying that the two had “made an enormous difference in the outlook of the Museum of Modern Art.”) She has written award-winning books, and she once curated an exhibition that went down in history and briefly landed her in jail. She has created spaces for Black women artists kept out of white-led mainstream institutions, and she has pushed behemoths like the Museum of Modern Art to be more inclusive. She has painted indelible images that speak to the racism endemic to American society and crafted quilts that inspire joy and hope. Faith Ringgold has made flags bleed and girls fly. ![]()
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