Facade: Tschabalala Self—Art Lovers

At the New Museum, *Facade: Tschabalala Self—Art Lovers* presents a live, on-site event shaped by Self’s ongoing investigation into how Black bodies are pictured, staged, and read. Working across painting, collage, and performance, she builds characters whose poses and surfaces borrow from both everyday life and art history. The New Museum’s platform places the project within a New York lineage of artists using figuration to argue with representation in real time. The work’s insistence on constructedness becomes its clearest critical point: intimacy is shown as something made, not simply felt.