1. Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture at the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (through February). "After art, fashion and architecture
are the two things I’m
most obsessed with."
2. Lorna Simpson at the Whitney Museum in New York (March through April).
"A major survey of her work on race and gender in images and text."
3. Mark Bradford at collectors Debra and Dennis Scholl’s
World Class Boxing,
a renovated gym in Miami (December through April). "Bradford is a fantastic mixed-media painter."
4. Isaac Julien, Fantôme Afrique at The Lab, just outside Denver (through
December). "A film installation exploring dance, architecture and African cinema."
5. Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love at the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis (February though mid-May). "A survey of Walker’s
black-paper silhouettes,
light projections, films, paintings."