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Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ Installation
Read more: Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ InstallationFor Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, memory and land are inevitably entwined. The 45-foot letters of Never Forget reference the Hollywood sign, which initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND and was erected to promote a whites-only development. Its…
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake
Read more: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little SnakeNatalie Ball’s work challenges dominant stories of Native American identities, taking to task the historical and visual legacies that misrepresent what it means to be “Indian.” She dives deeply into Indigenous histories and forms of knowledge, the use of language,…
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Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of Women
Read more: Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of WomenWhen Tracey Emin aired her dirty laundry in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, she set a new standard for confessional art. She conceived of the installation, titled My Bed (1998), after a long, bedridden bender following a…
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Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations
Read more: Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural RelationsA collective endeavor of Greek antiquity — no less than eighty different artists worked on the frieze alone — the Parthenon was built between 447 BC and 438 BC under the orders of Pericles, following a democratic debate, and overseen…
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Melting Point: Francis Alÿs’s ‘Paradox of Praxis’ and the Futility of Effort
Read more: Melting Point: Francis Alÿs’s ‘Paradox of Praxis’ and the Futility of EffortIn many of his works, the Belgian-Mexican conceptual and performance provocateur Francis Alÿs questions the relationship between action, effort, and outcome. His works tend to inspire one toward a blurring of lines between the actions done in artistic expression and…
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Stitching Solitude: Bea Camacho’s ‘Enclose’ and the Art of Isolation
Read more: Stitching Solitude: Bea Camacho’s ‘Enclose’ and the Art of IsolationBea Camacho is a visual and performance artist from the Philippines, the provocation of whose work is described as exciting and strikingly into identity, intimacy, and isolation. Her art is known to delve into the human complex of experiences and…
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Fragility and Endurance: Yann Marussich’s ‘BAIN BRISÉ’ and the Art of Vulnerability
Read more: Fragility and Endurance: Yann Marussich’s ‘BAIN BRISÉ’ and the Art of VulnerabilityYann Marussich is a Swiss performance artist who does avant-garde and shocking work, going further into the relationships of the human body with the environment. His work explores such themes as endurance, vulnerability, and the intersection of physicality with philosophy.…
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Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Read more: Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe Repellent Fence is a social collaborative project among individuals, communities, institutional organizations, publics, and sovereigns that culminate with the establishment of a large-scale temporary monument located near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. This 2 mile long ephemeral land-art…
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Defying Gravity with Elegance: Yoann Bourgeois’ Mesmerizing Take on Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune
Read more: Defying Gravity with Elegance: Yoann Bourgeois’ Mesmerizing Take on Debussy’s ‘Clair de LuneYoann Bourgeois is a mastermind in performance art who treats dance, acrobatics, and theatricality as practices that delve into fundamental human experiences related to falling and flying. His approach is unique, in which every creation transcends into something more than…
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Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and Beyond
Read more: Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and BeyondThis protest installation was first used in 2016 at Standing Rock when the community banded together to protect the Missouri River from a Dakota Access Pipeline. The mirror shields can protect against non-lethal deterrents like rubber bullets that may be…
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Pissed
Read more: PissedCassils has used clay, fire, photography, urine and the musculature of their own body as mediums to provoke, challenge and excite whoever experiences their singular creations. The internationally known artist strives to “hijack” the viewers’ experiences, so that anyone present…
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Beirut Graffiti Artist Uses His Murals to Unite A Fragmented City
Read more: Beirut Graffiti Artist Uses His Murals to Unite A Fragmented CityYazan Halwani is a young Beiruti artist who paints murals of revered Lebanese and Arab figures on prominent walls in a bid to help overcome sectarianism in this fragmented city. “What I try to do,” he explains down a fuzzy…