• Latest
Fashion Visionary Grace Wales Bonner to Curate MoMA’s Artist’s Choice Exhibition

Fashion Visionary Grace Wales Bonner to Curate MoMA’s Artist’s Choice Exhibition

July 18, 2023
The Pause Between Moments With Lexia Hachtmann

The Pause Between Moments With Lexia Hachtmann

June 30, 2025
David Koma Resort 2026 Pulls Femininity Into Sharp Focus

David Koma Resort 2026 Pulls Femininity Into Sharp Focus

June 30, 2025
Dries Van Noten SS26 Just a Perfect Day Menswear Collection

Dries Van Noten SS26 Just a Perfect Day Menswear Collection

June 30, 2025
Marine Serre Spring Summer 2026 Presents The Source

Marine Serre Spring Summer 2026 Presents The Source

June 30, 2025
PRONOUNCE

Backstage Moments at PRONOUNCE Spring Summer 2026 Show

June 30, 2025
Junya Watanabe MAN Spring 2026 Reframes Masculinity

Junya Watanabe MAN Spring 2026 Reframes Masculinity

June 30, 2025
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring 2026 Disrupts the Suit Once Again

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring 2026 Disrupts the Suit Once Again

June 30, 2025
Kenzo SS26 Reimagines Nightlife Codes in Club Kenzo

Kenzo SS26 Reimagines Nightlife Codes in Club Kenzo

June 30, 2025
Athens Key Hotel: A Contemporary Gateway to the Greek Capital

Athens Key Hotel: A Contemporary Gateway to the Greek Capital

June 30, 2025
Vowels SS26 Finds New Rhythm in What A Day

Vowels SS26 Finds New Rhythm in What A Day

June 30, 2025
Rabanne Pre-Fall 2025 Campaign Asserts Style as Identity

Rabanne Pre-Fall 2025 Campaign Asserts Style as Identity

June 30, 2025
QASIMI

Backstage Moments at the QASIMI Spring Summer 2026 Show

June 30, 2025
DSCENE
  • LATEST
  • FASHION
    • Ad Campaigns
    • Collections
      • Fall Winter 2025.26 Womenswear
      • Fall Winter 2025.26 Menswear
      • Pre-Fall 2025 Collections
      • Spring Summer 2025 Womenswear
      • Spring Summer 2025 Menswear
      • Fall Winter 2024.25 Womenswear
      • Fall Winter 2024.25 Menswear
      • Couture Collections
      • Bridal Collections
      • Capsule Collections
    • Jewelry
    • Lookbooks
    • Street Style
    • Backstage
    • Directory
      • Agencies
        • Creative Talent Agencies
        • Modelling Agencies
      • Brands
      • Photographers
      • Fashion Stylists
      • Hair Stylists
      • Makeup Artists
      • Female Models
      • Male Models
  • SNEAKERS
  • MAGAZINES
    • DSCENE Magazine
    • MMSCENE Magazine
    • EDITORIALS
  • EXCLUSIVE
    • Interviews
    • Exclusive
  • TRAVEL
    • Hotels
    • Restaurants
  • ART
    • Art
    • Design
      • Furniture
    • Architecture
      • Interior Design
  • SHOP
    • ABOUT
No Result
View All Result
DSCENE
  • LATEST
  • FASHION
    • Ad Campaigns
    • Collections
      • Fall Winter 2025.26 Womenswear
      • Fall Winter 2025.26 Menswear
      • Pre-Fall 2025 Collections
      • Spring Summer 2025 Womenswear
      • Spring Summer 2025 Menswear
      • Fall Winter 2024.25 Womenswear
      • Fall Winter 2024.25 Menswear
      • Couture Collections
      • Bridal Collections
      • Capsule Collections
    • Jewelry
    • Lookbooks
    • Street Style
    • Backstage
    • Directory
      • Agencies
        • Creative Talent Agencies
        • Modelling Agencies
      • Brands
      • Photographers
      • Fashion Stylists
      • Hair Stylists
      • Makeup Artists
      • Female Models
      • Male Models
  • SNEAKERS
  • MAGAZINES
    • DSCENE Magazine
    • MMSCENE Magazine
    • EDITORIALS
  • EXCLUSIVE
    • Interviews
    • Exclusive
  • TRAVEL
    • Hotels
    • Restaurants
  • ART
    • Art
    • Design
      • Furniture
    • Architecture
      • Interior Design
  • SHOP
    • ABOUT
No Result
View All Result
DSCENE
No Result
View All Result

Fashion Visionary Grace Wales Bonner to Curate MoMA’s Artist’s Choice Exhibition

Wales Bonner pays tribute to history's profound impact on art, inspiring contemplation and fostering connections across diverse cultures and places.

July 18, 2023
in Exhibitions
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Grace Wales Bonner. Photo: Liz Johnson Artur.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) reveals its latest coup—fashion prodigy Grace Wales Bonner will curate the sixteenth edition of the esteemed Artist’s Choice exhibition series. The London-based designer, celebrated for her eponymous fashion label, will handpick around fifty masterpieces from MoMA’s treasure trove to grace the museum’s street-level galleries from November 18, 2023, to April 7, 2024.

ART

Exploring MoMA’s vast collection, Wales Bonner brings forth the theme “Spirit Movers,” an ode to history’s profound impact on art and its ability to inspire contemplation and foster connections between diverse cultures and places. The exhibition is a celebration of Black cultural and aesthetic practices, paying tribute to the vibrant influences of the African diaspora. Enchanting works by illustrious artists, including Terry Adkins, Moustapha Dimé, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, and Betye Saar, will take center stage. Collaborating with Wales Bonner to co-organize this unparalleled show are Marlene Hess Curator Michelle Kuo and curatorial assistant Dana Liljegren.

Mathias Goeritz. Message Number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII: 6. 1959. Nails, metal foils, oil, and iron on wood panel, 17 7/8 x 13 5/8 x 3 3/8? (45.1 x 34.5 x 8.4 cm). Gift of Philip Johnson. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. D.R. © Mathias Goeritz 1959 License by L.M. Daniel Goeritz y Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid.

The “Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers” will extend beyond the gallery walls with an accompanying catalogue. The selected artworks will engage in a harmonious dialogue with seminal texts by iconic Black authors from the past century. Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will weave their words into the vibrant tapestry of art, enriching the exhibition with a symphony of perspectives.

Terry Adkins. Last Trumpet. 1995. Brass and sousaphone and trombone bells, four parts, each 216 × 24 × 24? (548.6 × 61 × 61 cm). Gift of David Booth; and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Thompson (by exchange). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Terry Adkins. Courtesy of the Estate of Terry Adkins.

Michelle Kuo, the exhibition curator, praises Wales Bonner for redefining style, turning it into not just a surface expression but a profound structure that encapsulates a myriad of histories, deep archives, and cultural identities from across the diasporic world. Wales Bonner’s creative genius extends beyond the realm of fashion, with accolades in curation, filmmaking, and publishing.

As the founder and artistic director of her eponymous label, she has breathed life into a distinct notion of cultural luxury, intertwining European heritage with the spirit of the Afro Atlantic. Her trailblazing vision earned her the prestigious CFDA International Men’s Designer of the Year award in 2021, and she was honored with the LVMH Young Designer Prize in 2015. A multi-talented artist, Wales Bonner curated her first institutional exhibition, “A Time for New Dreams,” in 2019 at London’s Serpentine Gallery. Recently, she embarked on the ambitious four-year project “Between Critique and Hope” at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, aiming to organize an alternative archival practice inspired by the poly-rhythmicality of Afro-Atlantic music and art.

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Washington, D.C. 1957. Gelatin silver print, 6 3/4 × 10″ (17.1 × 25.4 cm). Gift of
John C. Waddell. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2023 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.

Expressing her profound gratitude, Wales Bonner acknowledges the privilege of engaging with MoMA’s renowned artists and their timeless works saying “It is an immense honor to engage with the artists and works in MoMA’s collection, and I wish to extend my deepest thanks to the museum for allowing me the space to create so freely, I hope the exhibition and associated publication resound with the spirit of the contributing artists and continue to conjure new dreams and new visions.”

The Artist’s Choice series, inaugurated in 1989, has seen illustrious participation from Yto Barrada, Amy Sillman, Peter Fischli, and David Hammons. Now, with Grace Wales Bonner at the helm, this renowned series is set to reach unprecedented heights.

Tags: exhibitionsmomanews
admin

admin

Related Posts

Balenciaga by Demna Exhibition Opens in Paris
Balenciaga

Balenciaga by Demna Exhibition Opens in Paris

June 26, 2025
Art Basel 2025
Art

Art Basel 2025 Turned the City Into a Platform for Monumental Works

June 24, 2025
Formafantasma Redefines Domestic Design with Formation
Design

Formafantasma Redefines Domestic Design with Formation

June 5, 2025
BTS Member Jimin Opens “The Truth Untold” Solo Exhibition in New York
BTS

BTS Member Jimin Opens “The Truth Untold” Solo Exhibition in New York

June 2, 2025

dscene

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

DSCENE

DSCENE is curated as a daily art, design, fashion & lifestyle destination. DSCENE is non-for-profit fashion and culture basis organization which aims at further development of research on DSCENE values, as well as on providing educational services. Home of magazine editions DSCENE and MMSCENE – Click for more about DSCENE and for our Terms of Service.

Subscribe Our Newsletter

© 2024 DSCENE Publishing. All rights reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

No Result
View All Result
  • LATEST
  • FASHION
    • Ad Campaigns
    • Collections
      • Fall Winter 2025.26 Womenswear
      • Fall Winter 2025.26 Menswear
      • Pre-Fall 2025 Collections
      • Spring Summer 2025 Womenswear
      • Spring Summer 2025 Menswear
      • Fall Winter 2024.25 Womenswear
      • Fall Winter 2024.25 Menswear
      • Couture Collections
      • Bridal Collections
      • Capsule Collections
    • Jewelry
    • Lookbooks
    • Street Style
    • Backstage
    • Directory
      • Agencies
      • Brands
      • Photographers
      • Fashion Stylists
      • Hair Stylists
      • Makeup Artists
      • Female Models
      • Male Models
  • SNEAKERS
  • MAGAZINES
    • DSCENE Magazine
    • MMSCENE Magazine
    • EDITORIALS
  • EXCLUSIVE
    • Interviews
    • Exclusive
  • TRAVEL
    • Hotels
    • Restaurants
  • ART
    • Art
    • Design
      • Furniture
    • Architecture
      • Interior Design
  • SHOP
    • ABOUT
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.