Projects tagged
Installation
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Tech and Bodies
Read more: Tech and BodiesFilip Custic (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 1993) works across photography, performance and video to address themes around identity, body and our relationship with technology. Mirrors and screens are a recurring features, a reference to our age of image-obsession and…
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In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their due
Read more: In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their dueFaith Ringgold, the 93-year-old doyenne of African American art, a trailblazing master who foreshadowed the recent rise of art activism and Black figuration, is having her first solo museum show in Chicago. An electrifying and illuminating retrospective, “Faith Ringgold: American…
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Htein Lin: A Show of Hands
Read more: Htein Lin: A Show of HandsFrom 1998 to 2004, pro-democracy activist Htein Lin was jailed for challenging the military dictatorship in his home country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) in Southeast Asia. Prior to his imprisonment, Lin acted in films and with a theater troupe. While…
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This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Read more: This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic PollutionBenjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout. The symbolism of the #TurnOffThePlasticTap installation is somehow both over-the-top and…
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“Anime Gaze”
Read more: “Anime Gaze”A unique piece captured significant attention at the Central Academy of Fine Arts undergraduate graduation exhibition in June. The work featured an “anime-style” girl’s skull linked to a human skeleton and internal organs, all encased within a thin film. As…
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Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic Generator
Read more: Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic GeneratorCosmic Generator presents a network of characters working in nonsensical, and at times absurd, economies. Artist Mika Rottenberg uses footage from actual discount dollar stores in Calexico, CA; Mexicali, Mexico; and Yiwu, China to recreate the imaginary “life” of a…
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Sirens of the Lambs
Read more: Sirens of the LambsSirens of the Lambs is created by the enigmatic street artist, Banksy. This piece was first spotted on the streets of New York City on October 10, 2013, it went viral on social media and people are posting and reposting…
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“Herstory” is the first comprehensive New York museum survey of work by Judy Chicago
Read more: “Herstory” is the first comprehensive New York museum survey of work by Judy Chicago“Judy Chicago: Herstory” will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition…
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Ai Weiwei, Stools, 2014. Courtesy of Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Read more: Ai Weiwei, Stools, 2014. Courtesy of Martin-Gropius-Bau, BerlinChinese artist Ai WeiWei has drawn on the stool part of that French surrealist’s pioneer work for his latest exhibition, the largest ever devoted to Ai, which opens in Berlin this Thursday. The show, entitled Evidence, is at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau…
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Black Unity- a powerful symbol of the Black Power movement
Read more: Black Unity- a powerful symbol of the Black Power movementSculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) used her art to advocate for social change in both the U.S. and her adopted country of Mexico. Much of her work focuses on the experience of African American life and political struggle during…