Leah Dickerman

Last weekend in Richmond, Virginia—the former capital of the Confederacy, in what was the largest slave-holding state on the eve of the Civil War—crowds joined the mass protests that erupted across the country and beyond following the callous killings of George Floyd and others at the hands of police.

A panel from Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 (1988) While we often celebrate the moment of an artist’s emergence on the scene with a brilliant new voice, The Long Run explores work made later in an artist’s career, the kinds of things that emerge after years of practice, of coming back again and again to the question of how to make a work that matters, and the summation of the powers of experience and wisdom.

Tania Bruguera. Untitled (Havana, 2000). Earlier this year at The Museum of Modern Art, the artist and activist Tania Bruguera installed Untitled (Havana, 2000), a major work she first exhibited at the 7th Havana Biennial in 2000. The Biennial that year was one of the first major cultural platforms since the Cuban Revolution to which an international audience was invited.