South African painter's first American retrospective opens at MoMA
(NEWSER) - The South African painter Marlene Dumas has established herself as one of the most challenging artists of recent times, and her austere, anonymous portraits are loved and loathed in equal measures. Sure enough, her first American retrospective—entitled Measuring Your Own Grave, opening this week at MoMA in New York—divided critics. Bloomberg calls the show "hypnotic," while Artnet dismisses it as "lazy." More»
