Simone Forti’s Dance of Life
Performance artist and choreographer Simone Forti died on Wednesday at age 91, prompting renewed attention to her influence on postmodern dance and interdisciplinary art. Hyperallergic notes that Forti worked across movement, painting, poetry, video, and holography, and that her practice intersected with major avant-gardes in New York and California over decades. Glenn Phillips, chief curator at the Getty Research Institute, which acquired Forti’s archives in 2020, said she can be found “standing in the midst of nearly every avant-garde” of the period. The same news roundup also reported that Donald Trump spent $5 million in public funds to regild two Leo Friedlander equestrian sculptures in Washington, DC, titled “Arts of War” and “Arts of Peace.”
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