"Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams" is on view at Museum of Modern Art. Detail of Bodys Isek Kingelez, Ville Fantôme (1996) at the Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy Ben Davis. Ville Fantôme was the ...

Bodys Isek Kingelez, “Kinshasa la Belle” (1991, detail), paper, paperboard, and other various materials, 24 13/16 × 21 5/8 × 31 1/2″ (CAAC, the Pigozzi ...

Bodys Isek Kingelez, “Kinshasa la Belle” (1991), paper, paperboard, and other various materials, 24 13/16 × 21 5/8 × 31 1/2″ (courtesy CAAC – The Pigozzi ...

After a two year closure, the museum doubles its gallery space with a 700-plus object show examining how humans and technology shape each other. Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator in The ...

Museums in the Western world are working hard to broaden the cultural scope of their programs to make up for longstanding Western-centric blind spots. Next year, New York’s Museum of Modern Art takes ...

In 2013, two years before he died of a cancer first diagnosed in 2000, the Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez lamented to a journalist that in his home city of Kinshasa, “no one knows who I am or ...

An old artist’s bumper sticker (in California, of course) said, “When Outsiders are Insiders, only Insiders will be Outsiders.” At first gobsmacked glance, the “extreme maquettes” (as the artist ...

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Feature on Congolese sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948- ), who creates architectural maquettes.