What has “human” meant as technology kept redrawing the line? More than two hundred artists, writers, scientists and filmmakers, from Varvara Stepanova and Francis Bacon to Pierre Huyghe and Precious Okoyomon: the first show to fill the New Museum’s expanded building, 21 March to 31 August 2026. Show page.
Grows from
My own growth, not where Namjoon pointed. Shows at the New Museum.
Why it matters
(fill in: the door.)
Works with their own notes
- Ernest Mancoba, Composition (1951)
In the rooms
My photographs of the works I noted, in the order I met them.
Milford Graves, Pathways of Infinite Possibilities: Skeleton, 2017
Andro Wekua, Untitled, from Some Pheasants in Singularity, 2014
Ivana Bašić, Blossoming Being #2, 2020–25
Pamela Rosenkranz, Healer (Anamazon), 2021/2025
Miriam Cahn, Lieben [To Love], 2008
Cato Ouyang, Otherwise, spite, 2020
Jana Euler, „” (body), 2016
Precious Okoyomon, When the Lambs Rise Up Against the Bird of Prey, 2024
Zoran Mušič, Non siamo gli ultimi [We are not the last], 1974
Francis Bacon, Study for Self Portrait, 1979
Maria Lassnig, Selbstporträt als Tier [Self-Portrait as Animal], 1963
Jean Dubuffet, Sourire (Tête hilare II), 1948
Gustav Metzger, Self Portrait, An Undefiled, 1946
Asger Jorn, Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963
Ernest Mancoba, Composition, 1951
WangShui, Cathexis 1, 3, 2, 2024
Pierre Huyghe, Human Mask, 2014
Jenna Sutela, HMO Nutrix, 2022
Lucy Beech, Out of Body, 2025
Sara Deraedt, Baby being born out of a computer, 2024
Simon Denny, Amazon worker cage patent drawing as virtual King Island Brown Thornbill cage, 2019
Varvara Stepanova, Figure, 1921
Berenice Olmedo, Olga, 2018
A.C.M., Untitled, n.d.
Steffani Jemison, Tumbler, 2021
Mika Rottenberg, Dough, 2005–06