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Goshka Macuga at the New Museum

Miroslav Tichy surreptitiously photographed unsuspecting women in the Czech Republic for decades; the resulting images are often celebrated in New York galleries and museums. For her solo show at the New Museum, Polish-born artist Goshka Macuga created this tapestry, featuring women from Tichy’s photos (and other sources) along with two women who wear body suits based on Tichy’s drawings.  The women in the tapestry clean Karl Marx’s tombstone, summoning not workers but women to unite. (At the New Museum through June 26th).

Goshka Macuga, Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite, wool tapestry, collection of the Broad Art Foundation, 2013.
Goshka Macuga, Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite, wool tapestry, collection of the Broad Art Foundation, 2013.

Goshka Macuga on the High Line in ‘Busted’

Public sculptures tend to depict moments of triumph, not regret. This makes Polish artist Goshka Macuga’s bronze rendition of Colin Powell, part of the High Line’s portrait exhibition ‘Busted,’ surprising and poignant as he shows the leader holding a vial of anthrax in his 2003 UN speech on weapons of mass destruction. (Through June 2014 at 22nd Street on the High Line.)  

Goshka Macuga, ‘Colin Powell,’ bronze and concrete, 2009.