Hyperallergic: Your Concise New York Art Guide for October 2022
Hyperallergic: Your Concise New York Art Guide for October 2022
"The show dispels all notions of friendly accommodation," writes Billy Anania about Americas Society's Tropical Is Political.
How can it possibly be October already? Soon enough, we’ll be setting the clocks back once again, which increasingly feels like an effort to recover lost time. For lifelong goths such as myself, however, this season is all about the city’s many thrills and chills, and of course the casual reminders of our own mortality. Our monthly highlights include topographical studies of battlegrounds and cemeteries, ghosts of Manhattan’s geological past, and the terrors of theocratic rule. Happy Halloween, my friends! […]
Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime
Americas Society is exploring the different meanings of “paradise” for Caribbean islanders and Euro-American tourists. Tropical Is Political, which brings together the work of 19 contemporary artists, conceptualizes how the “visitor economy” has torn away layers of stability in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere. […] The show dispels all notions of friendly accommodation, positioning diaspora consciousness as oppositional to capitalist luxury. […]
This exhibition featured works by 19 contemporary artists from the Caribbean and their diasporas.
