New Contemporary Art Institute Reverberates in Richmond’s Historic Landscape – The New York Times

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Designed to explore contemporary art’s power to catalyze change, the inaugural exhibit will feature many site-specific works by 33 emerging and established artists from Richmond and around the globe, including Paul Rucker. His site-specific installation “Storm in the Time of Shelter,” an ominous crowd of larger-than-life-size Ku Klux Klan robes reproduced in fabrics including camouflage and African Kente cloth, is unlikely to be viewed here without recalling the white nationalist rally that erupted in violence last August in Charlottesville, just 70 miles away.