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- Inspired by the drowning of 23 Chinese undocumented cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay (northwest England). Mazu, goddess of the sea, floats over the tragedy.
- Playtime follows six characters: the Artist, the Hedge Fund Manager, the Auctioneer, the House Worker, the Art Dealer, and the Reporter, exploring how each is affected by capital and the global financial crisis.
- Baltimore is an homage to writer, director, producer, and actor Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021), whose 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ushered in the "blaxploitation" era, a genre of low-budget films created for African American audiences during the 1970s. Artist Isaac Julien appropriates the look and feel of blaxploitation films, using Baltimore's streets and museums as locations. He created this piece while filming Baadasssss Cinema (2002), a documentary on blaxploitation. Baltimore features the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, the Walters Art Museum, and The Contemporary museum, which serve as symbolic markers of American history and art history. Van Peebles stars with his signature hat and cigar alongside the stylish Vanessa Myrie, who-in a nod to Afrofuturism-plays a cyborg with superpowers. They move in parallel journeys through the museums as well as through time and space until Van Peebles encounters his likeness standing between wax versions of civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Evading a single interpretation, Baltimore is-in Julien's words-"ironic and funky, nostalgic and futuristic, rough and fine." Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and distinguished professor of the arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This exhibition is curated by Vice President of Curatorial Affairs Doris Berger and Assistant Curator J. Raúl Guzmán. Thank you to Isaac Julien and his studio members in London and at the University of California Santa Cruz as well as Mark Nash.
- During lockdown in early 2020, Grayson Perry brought the nation together through art. Now he visits the gallery showing artworks from the series, meeting some of the artists and some celebrity guests too.
- As Grayson and Philippa Perry prepare to throw open the studio doors again, they look back on an extraordinary year, and also give tips and advice on how to get creative in lockdown.
- "It calms you down," admits a cage fighter, explaining why he engages in the world's most brutal sport. What does it say about masculinity that violence is a form of therapy? Moved by the tragic story of a young man lost to suicide, artist Grayson Perry seeks out the stories of a band of cage fighters - uncovering the insecurities and surprising motivations that attract them to this macho world.