Comprised of more than 100 photographs and a two-channel video installation, Land of Dreams is the New York premiere of Shirin Neshat’s latest body of work. The show marks a monumental conceptual and visual shift for the artist, whose repertoire has often looked back at her native Iran. Here, her explorations and camera are fixed on her adoptive home in the United States.
Read MoreHer first major retrospective and largest exhibit to date, “Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again,” is on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from February 28 through May 16.
Arranged chronologically, the show highlights Neshat’s three-decade career with eight immersive video installations and 230 photographs. The exhibit takes its name from a poem from Forugh Farrokhzad, a feminist poet who was controversial in Iran. Neshat’s works explore death, isolation, revolution, and separation by both nation and gender.
Read MoreThe first activation is SOUTH SOUTH VEZA, an online event co-conceived by galleries to promote and support art from the Global South. At Chemould Prescott Road, the show titled 'Holding Space (for the global south)' is a curated exhibition of 6 artists—Shilpa Gupta, Reena Kallat, Jitish Kallat, Desmond Lazaro, Lavanya Mani and Mithu Sen. The works comprise drawings, sculpture, textile and mixed media installations that seek to balance the very delicate tension of multiple vantage points of identity, memory and territory whilst steadfastly holding crucial space for the South in a global narrative building.
Read MoreNow, more than ever, is the time for public art. In Coral Gables, Florida, one city-wide project is showcasing the works of 15 artists and runs until March 13. It's called Illuminate Coral Gables and is south Florida's first public art and light installation. Among the works on view, Kiki Smith’s piece Blue Night depicts 42 constellation animals, suspended from above. From goats to scorpions and fish, each piece is created on a transparent blue background, with holographic vinyl, and Smith was inspired by the constellation drawings from the late 17th century by Johannes Hevelius, among others.
Read MoreThe peace activist who was once married to the Beatles’ frontman John Lennon has made profound contributions to visual art and experimental music in the last decades.
Read MoreIn my artworks I approach beauty as a way to escape the mundane. Beauty isn't just the physicality of my characters, but their raw emotions, dignity and humanity.
Read MoreIt might not be considered a noble material, but Chiharu Shiota has made yarn her signature medium in the creation of powerful, delicate and enveloping environments in which recovered objects like suitcases, shoes, dresses, bed frames, windows and doors are sometimes suspended in a web.
Read MoreBe among the first to explore Mudam's newest exhibition of works by one of the most influential artists of our time, William Kentridge, when "More Sweetly Play the Dance" opens in Kirchberg.
Over the last forty years, Kentridge has developed a major body of work at the crossroads of artistic disciplines, particularly in the fields of performance, theater and opera.
Read MoreShrouded in secrecy, the Italian luxury fashion house’s creative director Daniel Lee presented Salon 01 to the likes of British rapper Skepta, German conceptual artist Rosemarie Trockel and Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry, along with other artists and industry insiders; the collection was unveiled weeks later to the rest of the world – via video, of course.
Read MoreRed. Yellow. Blue. Everything started with three large-scale paintings by Gerhard Richter that BMW commissioned from the artist in 1971. Today, BMW is committed to cultural engagement around the world and takes its social responsibility seriously as a corporate citizen.
Read MoreANDOVER — It takes no great insight to grasp the intentions of Yoko Ono’s “Mend Piece,” by now a chestnut of conceptual participatory performance (which sounds complicated, but it’s not). That it was first made in the 1960s, the last time the country fell apart so completely, has special resonance here and now, given the mess we’re in. “Mend Piece” is, literally and metaphorically, exactly what it says it is: Things break; what can we do but put them back together? Inevitably, they won’t be as they were. That’s not all bad, but it takes some work. And it’s the work itself, not the results, that matters.
Read MoreCurated by Tereza de Arruda, Linhas da Vida [Lifelines] features works spanning from the outset of Shiota’s career, in 1994, up to brand new installations inspired by Brazil. The fleetingness of the cycles of life, memory and her own personal experience have inspired the work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. Known mainly for her large-scale site-specific works, often made with a tangle of lines, Shiota has produced a multidisciplinary oeuvre unfolded in various media: installations, performances, photographs and paintings. […]
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