--- title: 2020_Ukeles_Artforum_Russeth date: 2020-03-25T11:32:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/2020-ukeles-artforum-russeth" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ View With Images ](/artist_overview) Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A [ Arakawa ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) [ Conrad Atkinson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/conrad-atkinson) [ Eleanor Antin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [ Ida Applebroog ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/ida-applebroog-) [ Jim Anderson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jim-anderson-) B [ Alexander Brodsky ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) [ Brandon Ballengée ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [ Brodsky & Utkin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brodsky-utkin) [ Chris Burden ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/chris-burden-) [ Joseph Beuys ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) C [ Cassils ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [ Keith Cottingham ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/keith-cottingham) [ Nancy Chunn ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/nancy-chun) D [ Eric Dyer ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eric-dyer) [ Milena Dopitová ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/milena-dopitova) F [ Carl Fudge ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/carl-fudge) [ Terry Fox ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/terry-fox) G [ Leon Golub ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/leon-golub-) [ Rico Gatson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson) [ Yishay Garbasz ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/yishay-garbasz) H [ Cameron Hayes ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cameron-hayes) [ Christine Hill ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/christine-hill) [ Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [ Kelly Heaton ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kelly-heaton) [ Margaret Harrison ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/margaret-harrison) [ Shih Chieh Huang ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/shih-chieh-huang) J [ Simone Jones ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/simone-jones) K [ Brian Knep ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brian-knep) [ Komar & Melamid ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [ Peggy Jarrell Kaplan ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/peggy-jarrell-kaplan) [ Vitaly Komar ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) L [ Kim Levin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kim-levin-) M [ McCarren/Fine ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mccarren-fine) O [ Pepón Osorio ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/pep%C3%B3n-osorio) [ The Oakes Twins ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) P [ Bruce Pearson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) [ Panamarenko ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/panamarenko) R [ Fredric Riskin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) Maintenance Work Artforum Mar 24, 2020 **THERE HAVE BEEN** [harrowing interviews](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/podcasts/the-daily/italy-coronavirus.html) with doctors, sobering[ podcast hits](https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/how-barstool-landed-dr-anthony-fauci-on-pardon-my-take-for-coronavirus-talk/) by experts, and [on-the-ground reporting](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/asia/china-coronavirus-cost.html), but when it comes to images of the coronavirus pandemic, the defining ones have been almost entirely ancillary, at least a step removed from the actual devastation. That has made it difficult to grasp its human toll. Many funerals occur without mourners, the sick deserve their privacy, and cartoon renderings of COVID-19 baffle. And so the most visible images related to the crisis have been the time-lapse videos of China speedily [building hospitals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU0tXKa2bI), the footage of Italians [singing](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/16/under-quarantine-balconies-around-world-set-stage-dj-sets-squats-singing/) and [playing instruments](https://twitter.com/CCB_Castello/status/1238583917935902720) on their balconies, photos of medical professionals [holding signs](https://www.today.com/health/doctors-nurses-share-viral-signs-during-coronavirus-pandemic-t176403) asking people to stay home, and now [Christ the Redeemer](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/coronavirus-rio-christ-the-redeemer-trnd/index.html), in Rio de Janeiro, blanketed with a projection of the flags of countries dealing with the disease. [**Read more here.**](https://www.artforum.com/slant/andrew-russeth-considers-the-role-of-art-in-a-pandemic-82548) Related News & Press Mar 17, 2020 [ ![Php Thumb generated thumbnail](/assets/exhibition_images/phpThumb_generated_thumbnail.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/knep-larb-gat) Mar 17, 2020 LA Review of Books [Brian Knep](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brian-knep) [Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Orit Gat on 2006 and the Rise of YouTube](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/knep-larb-gat) Mar 16, 2020 [ ![Cassils Gardiner Alejandro Santiago trans 3638 2042x1362](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Gardiner-AlejandroSantiago-trans-3638-2042x1362.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/2020-cassils-exrta-bowness) Mar 16, 2020 Daily Xtra [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Cassils transforms the way we see](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/2020-cassils-exrta-bowness) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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