MoMA’s Wifredo Lam retrospective revisits the boundaries of modernism

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Clara Maria Apostolatos’s Hyperallergic review read MoMA’s Wifredo Lam retrospective as a reassessment of an artist once marginalised within the museum’s modernist narrative. She traced Lam’s engagement with African and Afro-Caribbean traditions without reducing him to a follower of European Surrealism. The review also questioned how fully the galleries addressed the racialised frameworks surrounding his career, finding richer treatment of some of those tensions in the catalogue.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Clara Maria Apostolatos. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.