#whoisqueen

A travelling nun stood for hours in front of Adam Pendleton’s “Who Is Queen?” installation in Moma’s atrium. She was watching a video collage that featured “Resurrection City, a 1968 ad-hoc city set up on the National Mall, Washington DC, to demand the elimination of poverty”. Watercolor, 2021. #moma #adampendleton #whoisqueen #watercolor #aquarelle #fredericlere (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/frederic_lere/p/CXRSKCHuvB-/?utm_medium=tumblr

A serious review of 'Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?' and the 'Who Is Queen' reader from @themuseumofmodernart⁠ is up now @aigaeyeondesign via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠⁠ @marcuscivin writes, "Pendleton’s extensive use of handwriting and typography suggests productive and subversive interrelationships between typography, language, and protest. His works call attention to the abstract potential of language by examining how it can suggest and refuse meaning. The intensity of the graffiti-influenced writing is perhaps even a challenge to any supposedly clear, cool, neutral typography. Where Pendleton repeats letterforms and words or writes them on top of each other, he communicates various disaggregated versions of truncated, pensive phrases like “not the way,” “but now I am,” and “we are not.” His treatment of text expresses doubt and musicality while also reflecting the development of individual and collective identity.…⁠ ⁠ A nearly 300-page book, 'Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader,' accompanies the MoMA exhibition. It resembles a University course reader and a designer’s process book and includes influential thinkers who linger on abstraction and the complexities of political histories and language. It asserts that Pendleton is as much a book designer as a painter and video maker. Sections of text in the reader switch from black letters on white backgrounds to white letters on black backgrounds. A casually xeroxed text might be surrounded or interrupted by copies of painted pages. Within a text, a page might repeat but be covered in geometric shapes. There are photographs of 1968’s Resurrection City, part of the Poor People’s Campaign and a precursor to the Occupy movement. The photographs show plywood shelters in Washington, DC, on the National Mall where activists demanded more federal support, writing messages of hope and determination on the plywood and on posters.…"⁠ ⁠ Product shots courtesy @pendleton.adam⁠ ⁠ #adampendleton #whoisqueen #blackdada @stuartcomer @adynyc @mario_gooden_thisishowwework @virtuosa12 @tillman_glossitis https://www.instagram.com/p/CWTRfwXFfJS/?utm_medium=tumblr

An extensive review of 'Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?' at MoMA is up now @4columnsmag⁠ ⁠ @evan_and_hell writes, "Like much of Pendleton’s earlier work, 'Who Is Queen?' is dizzying in its erudition; its references are cited in a curatorial didactic, extended wall labels, and a doorstop reader.… Pendleton’s refusal to elaborate his sources within the work itself—and, in some cases, his attempts to partially obscure those sources by layering them—aligns the piece with scholars such as Moten and Frank B. Wilderson III, who have repeatedly insisted on the right of Black subjects to not be understood."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ The 'Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? (A Reader)' is a new release this week from @themuseumofmodernart⁠ ⁠⁠ Edited by Adam Pendleton with Alec Mapes-Frances. Introduction by Stuart Comer. Text by Adrienne Edwards, Mario Gooden, Danielle A. Jackson, Adam Pendleton, Lynne Tillman.⁠ ⁠ Product shots courtesy @pendleton.adam⁠ ⁠ #adampendleton #whoisqueen #blackdada @stuartcomer @adynyc @mario_gooden_thisishowwework @virtuosa12 @tillman_glossitis https://www.instagram.com/p/CVx6NEkJKwB/?utm_medium=tumblr

Adam Pendleton's highly anticipated Fall 2021 exhibition, 'Who Is Queen?,' opens @themuseumofmodernart September 18, and we are delighted to see this feature @nytimes with a preview not only of the show, but the 'Who Is Queen? Reader' (forthcoming in October) — "a sourcebook reader that has been produced "in lieu of a catalog, explaining some of the artist’s many inspirations."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Published to accompany Pendleton's installation at MoMA, this reader serves as a primer and handbook to the exhibition and features a number of photocopied textual and visual sources, many of which directly relate to the concept, content and programming of the exhibition. The project questions the notion of the museum as repository and addresses the influence that mass movements, including those of the last decade such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy, could have on the exhibition as form. Drawing on the work of figures as disparate as Glenn Gould, Michael Hardt and Ruby Sales, 'Who Is Queen?' seeks to explore the nexus of abstraction and politics.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read the full @nytimes feature via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Book photo courtesy @pendleton.adam⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #adampendleton #whoisqueen #whoisqueenreader #blackdada #wiq https://www.instagram.com/p/CTpno53pk4j/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hot book alert!! #Repost @stuartcomer ・・・ Countdown: one month to Adam Pendelton: Who Is Queen? at MoMA. Published to accompany the exhibition, Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader serves as a primer and a handbook, building on a series of readers the artist has published (beginning with Black Dada Reader in 2017). Edited by Adam Pendleton with Alec Mapes-Frances, the book includes photocopies of texts that have been critical to Pendleton’s project, alongside images of Resurrection City and Pendleton’s own drawings, my introduction, a roundtable with Adrienne Edwards, Lynne Tillman, Danielle A. Jackson, Adam and me, and a commissioned essay by Mario Gooden. Additional texts include Jason Adams, Lauren Berlant, Anthony Braxton, Judith Butler, Ornette Coleman, Jacques Derrida, Julius Eastman, Glenn Gould, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Michael Hardt, Kynsaton McShine, Fred Moten, Charles Henry Rowell, Ruby Sales, James A. Snead, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simone White, Frank B. Wilderson III, and George Yancy. #adampendleton #whoisqueen @pendleton.adam @themuseumofmodernart https://www.instagram.com/p/CSfm3WZMboj/?utm_medium=tumblr

          “ She’s... quite small, you know. ”, he begins, eyeing the man, trying to look serious.               “ You could simply remove her from your presence if she’s such trouble. ”

Perhaps this would sort itself out in the morning... or it was just a strange dream...

[just lets it happen tbh because, really, why argue?]