The counter-programming to MMoCA’s Gallery Night returns June 2 and 3 in multiple venues around the city.
Madison, under its liberal surface, still has a great deal of structural white supremacy and systemic racism to dismantle, and 2022 showed that the local art world is no exception. The 2022 Wisconsin Triennial exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, subtitled Ain’t I A Woman, Milwaukee-based guest curator Fatima Laster set out to highlight work from Black women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists. But a couple of ugly confrontations before and during the exhibition, and the museum’s defensive response to these incidents, eventually prompted about half of the artists to withdraw their…