William Hernández Luege

How does living in a sea of information shift the ways artworks can be political? Curator William Hernández Luege explores this question through Allan Sekula’s Fish Story.

On the eve of the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present, Irving sat down with exhibition curator William Hernández Luege to discuss how sculpture can be a tool to process the complex world around us.

Hovering between gesture and restraint, figuration and abstraction, Susan Rothenberg’s art heralded a new direction for painting, writes William Hernández Luege, who commemorates the artist’s passing at age 75.

Getting rid of our old stuff is easy. Holding onto it is harder. In Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall, the artist presents selections of three of his collections to call attention to the objects that exist in the material world around us, just outside of our perception. Curatorial Fellow William Hernández Luege takes a close look at one of these collections and traces its history and impact from the 19th century through the present, showing just how powerful objects and ideas can be once they are forgotten—and what it might mean to suddenly remember them.