The Augur, painting for “Permanent Collection” group show curated by Jordin Isip and Eddie del Rosario, opening in July. The Augur is a cover/interpretation of John Currin’s The Clairvoyant from MoMA’s permanent collection.
In Greek mythology, augury is a kind of fortune-telling where insight into the will of the gods comes from studying the type, flight and behavior of birds. I always thought augurs could tell the future from the entrails of birds, but that’s either extispicy, hieroscopy, or haruspication.