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A Fertile Mind.(Wangechi Mutu)
Byline: Eve MacSweeney. Portfolio by Annie Leibovitz
Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu's pregnancy has helped to inspire her rich and wildly imaginative work.
Most pregnant women go out shopping for expandable clothing whose aesthetic they can reconcile with a vestige of their former style. Wangechi Mutu, six weeks from her due date, went out shopping for feathers and a pair of ultrahigh-heeled shoes.
Though her workrichly imagined, fantastical figures and abstractions that draw on African folk tales, cyborg innovation, and quasi-pornographic displaymay include feathers, glitter, hair, pearls, and fur, these feathers and heels were for Mutu herself to ...
- Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA.(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Murray, D.C. October 1, 2006 700+ words
Kenya-born, New York-based Wangechi Mutu is known for her unsettling and evocative collage works: disturbing...barometer of societal ills. Formally and conceptually resolved, Mutu's exhibition was an eclectic conglomeration of artistic and...
- Collage collection in Miami.(Wangechi Mutu at the Miami Art Museum, Florida)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Kilian, Michael August 22, 2005 700+ words
...of Kenyan-born New York artist Wangechi Mutu, who specializes in "elegantly...journals and even motorcycle magazines, Mutu's works are so seamlessly put together...minister and an ardent abolitionist. Mutu, a product of Yale University and...
- Wangechi Mutu: when this artist says her goal is to keep moving, keep changing,...
- Magazine article from: Interview Kruger, Barbara April 1, 2007 700+ words
...both backstory and explanatory device. How important is that Information to the viewing and reception of the work?. WANGECHI MUTU: I think it's important, and I also think people fixate on certain specific, superficial things about you to lead...
- Mutu's case tests sport's private courts; Mutu's case tests sports' private...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune Rob Hughes August 19, 2009 700+ words
...International Herald Tribune 08-19-2009 Mutu's case tests sport's private courts; Mutu's case tests sports' private courts Byline...Sport has backed Chelsea's claim that Adrian Mutu, who it axed for cocaine use, must pay back...
- Football: I'm done with drugs and nightclubs; ADRIAN MUTU EXCLUSIVE CHAMPIONS...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) March 26, 2006 700+ words
Byline: anthony CLAVANE ADRIAN MUTU is desperate to play at Highbury on Tuesday...being booted out of Chelsea 16 months ago. Mutu tested positive for cocaine at Stamford...who were happy to lead him astray. Now Mutu, still only 27, is back for a big night...
- Football: DRUG TEST 'EM ALL; How the Blues trapped Mutu.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) September 18, 2005 700+ words
...player in the clampdown that led to Adrian Mutu's sacking. Sunday Mirror Sport has seen...spoke to Dr Frazer about concerns over Mutu's behaviour and rumours from Romania...Frazer's evidence, in an attempt to trap Mutu, Kenyon asked for the entire Chelsea squad...
- Football: Roma to win race for Mutu; SHAME: Sacked star looks to Italy.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) November 7, 2004 700+ words
...PAUL SMITH SACKED Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu wants to join Italian giants Roma once...for cocaine in September. A chastened Mutu, who admitted the offence, repeated his...legal repercussions for the London club. Mutu said: "I've made a mistake and I...
- Mutu smiling again as he's back with his wife.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) July 14, 2004 700+ words
...stitched into his adidas boots, Adrian Mutu has been accused of copying David Beckham...to do it over a drink at Scalini's. Mutu is mending his ways. While Victoria Beckham...with her husband in Madrid next season, Mutu's marital problems could take longer...
