School may be out for summer, but art class is in full swing at The Campus, upstate New York’s new cultural haven. Situated just outside of Hudson in a school left vacant since the 1990s, the project represents an unprecedented collaboration between six New York galleries: Bortolami, James Cohan, Kaufmann Repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and Kurimanzutto.
In the center of the room is British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s 2021 sculpture Moving Up, with three globe-headed figures ascending a staircase; it recalls the Great Migration, when Black Americans fled the South in search of a better life. Suspended above the stage is Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Bowers’s monumental neon sculpture Climate Change is Real , from 2018, along with numerous examples of her hanging chairs made of recycled materials.