New Exhibition is a Compelling Rummage Through the Relics of an Artist's Radical Life

The New Mexico Museum of Art's Vladem Contemporary has opened "Lucy Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind," an exhibition curated by Alexandra Terry that showcases artworks gifted to the influential art critic and activist Lucy R. Lippard by artists she championed. The show features pieces by Melanie Yazzie, Ana Mendieta, and others, tracing Lippard's journey from a young art history graduate working at MoMA to a writer for Artforum and Art International, and ultimately to a vocal advocate for social justice who merged art with activism.