Transmissions Gifts Suchitra Mattai

Suchitra Mattai

but also a remarkable primer on modern and contemporary American art

The project questions the notion of the museum as repository and addresses the influence that mass movements

and performance within museum spaces

Toni Cade Bambara

Transmissions Gifts Suchitra MattaiOver the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on his 2018 Whitney Museum exhibition with a closer look at the relationship between modernist ballet and the New York avant garde. In the 1930s through 1950s, ballet was introduced to a popular audience in New York and was simultaneously