Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Tibetan Self-immolation Portraits
Read more: Tibetan Self-immolation PortraitsBeijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects — men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive — have one thing in…
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What Kind of Man are You?
Read more: What Kind of Man are You?In a dark nod to International Women’s Day, artist aleXsandro Palombo has turned to the world of cartoon characters to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence. His series, “No Violence Against Women,” transforms iconic animated women into victims…
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Procedure Room
Read more: Procedure RoomThe project (created in 2009-2010) consists of painted plats and posters depicted with drawings of police torture scenes. Images also include snippets of email exchanges. The plates have been exhibited in numerous galleries in Ukraine, and posters were hung in…
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Independence Square Sculpture: “New Ukraine”
Read more: Independence Square Sculpture: “New Ukraine”French street artist Roti installed a 4-ton marble sculpture in Independence Square in Kiev Ukraine, as an expression of solidarity with government resistors and protestors. The sculpture depicts a woman’s body emerging from water. From Rojo & Harrington (Huffington post):…
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Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa House
Read more: Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa HouseLu Yang attempts to bring the negative notion of Cancer cell into a “Kimo Kawa” object of love and/or pain and hopes to open a dialogue that brings awareness to the acceptance and tolerance of living with cancer cells. Using…
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The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980
Read more: The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Lower East Side Through April 27 This messy scrapbook of an exhibition reprises “The Real Estate Show,” a semifamous exhibition that opened on New Year’s Eve 1979 in a vacant, city-owned building on Delancey Street.…
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Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”
Read more: Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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The Art World’s New Gang War
Read more: The Art World’s New Gang WarThe Nahmads have been dealers in Modern art since Giuseppe Nahmad set up in Milan in 1957. But they have been the Warren Buffetts of the business, sticking to the tried and true. Now Joseph Nahmad, one of Giuseppe’s grandsons,…
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‘Calligraffiti’ Artist El Seed Makes Tunisia His Canvas
Read more: ‘Calligraffiti’ Artist El Seed Makes Tunisia His CanvasThe minaret of the Jara Mosque in Gabes towers over its surroundings. Formed of golden brick, it jolts up from the flat, sand-colored cityscape around it, all the better to broadcast the call to prayer across the coastal city. But…
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They Shoot Horses
Read more: They Shoot HorsesText taken from website: Phil Collins’s work often originates in areas of conflict, shifting the focus away from sensationalist news coverage to reveal unexpected aspects of life in contested territories – from Belfast to Belgrade to Baghdad and Bogotá. they…