‘HUMA BHABHA: WE COME IN PEACE’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Oct. Although questions of racial and gender identity and politics perfume the air, the best photography in the show touches lightly, if at all, on these subjects. Its rubric proves capacious enough to include portraiture, reportage, fashion and pretty much everything you can turn a camera on.
In response to the last exhibition and to the intervening political upheavals, this show offers a broader and more stimulating range of work from 17 artists - two of whom collaborate as a team - all under 45. It seemed as if photography, which continued to engage with the world after modernist painting and literature turned inward, had finally crumpled into solipsism. At the last survey of new photography at MoMA two years ago, the atmosphere was so self-referential and hermetic that a visitor panted for oxygen. ‘BEING: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2018’ at the Museum of Modern Art (through Aug. Bayrle’s work instead offers a window into digital thinking or, it could be said, how we got to where we are now. Bayrle’s art seems like the ultimate in early computer design, most of the 115 paintings, prints, films and sculptures in his first major New York retrospective are actually handcrafted, generally using his signature “superform” of a large image made up of hundreds or thousands of smaller ones. Abstract films and videos pulse with psychedelic patterns. Bayrle’s work, pixelated pictures twist and bend and resolve into fuzzily warped images. ‘THOMAS BAYRLE: PLAYTIME’ at the New Museum (through Sept. Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
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