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If you are intrigued by artists who, instead of ensconcing themselves securely in one frame of cultural reference, work at the interface of several, then you can't help feeling curious about Wifredo Lam. Lam died 11 years ago, after a lifetime spent moving between Paris, New York City and...
He was much more than that. Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952, at the Studio Museum in Harlem -- the 25th anniversary show of that battling, indispensable institution -- offers a rare chance to see his work in some depth. It isn't a full retrospective or anything like one: it...
After academic studies in Havana, he went to Europe in 1923; presently he came to know Picasso (whose work strongly influenced him) and the Surrealists, who took him in as a member of their group. Another black painter who knew him in Paris claimed that Lam "forged the link between...
Lam's debts to Picasso raise a certain irony. Starting around 1907, Picasso got a whole repertoire of forms from African art; Lam took some of them -- the shield masks, the displacement and distortion of limbs -- as a means of reconnecting with his own African inheritance. He was not the...
London: William Mader Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew...