Permanent Collection at the new Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Artnews review of the new permanent collection hang at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

…The third floor, which is largely free of any walls at all, is where the AKG is showing off some of its shiniest new works, including a giant tire ensconced in chains by Arthur Jafa, and a Simone Leigh sculpture depicting an armless Black female figure whose skirt is formed from raffia. This is a telling of recent art history formed by artists who cross cultural borders, an effect driven home by Tiffany Chung’s reconstructing an exodus history: flight routes from camps and of ODP cases (2017), an embroidered map of the world in which lines of string connect the United States to Asia…