Chasing art in New York

New York City offers whatever you want, quickly and without much fuss. You just gotta walk the walk. I was excited to see the art in the city’s museums. So I walked the walk, between museums. Whitney Museum We visited the Whitney Museum on Halloween eve. The museum was open until 10 pm and entrance was free. We started directly from the 5th floor, the top of the museum. The floor was dedicated to artist Minnie Evans whom I’d never heard of before. Her mandala-like paintings have a lot of Ancient American motifs, so I thought she was Mexican or Peruvian or maybe a Native American. After walking around the floor, my wife, Gule, whispered to me “I think Evans is a black woman”. I couldn’t understand how she intuited that, but it was true: Minnie Evans I liked her paintings overall, although they were a bit too Christian for my taste. However, one of them made me stop immediately: Minnie Evans, Airlie Oak, 1954 After seeing Paula Modersohn-Becker’s last painting in Bremen, paintings with…

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