Ivy Getty, Tom Blyth, and the Search for Fantasy in a Mad, Mad World

The Dream Sequence Last fall I went to a splendid exhibition in San Francisco featuring sculpture, collage, and video by the artist Wangechi Mutu. Because we went on a weekday afternoon, it wasn’t crowded, and my friend Anisse and I could linger up close with Mutu’s chimerical, often towering sculptures. Mutu has spoken of inventing her own mythologies with her work; accordingly, the hybrid deities she’d shaped with bronze, clay, soil, and gems were newly strange, and fantastically haunting. It was one of the best afternoons I’ve had all pandemic long, and it was one I’d desperately needed, this brief… Read Full Article