Germany’s most famous living artist turns 90 on 9 February and he is mounting an exhibition to mark the occasion in Dresden, the city where he was born. Focusing on Gerhard Richter’s portraits, glass and abstract works, the exhibition will extend over three rooms at the Albertinum, where the artist’s work is already on permanent display. It opens on 5 February and runs until 1 May.
Read MoreWhen Peter Jackson’s docu-series The Beatles: Get Back premiered in 2021 over Thanksgiving weekend on Disney+, the world got a new picture of Yoko Ono, the Japanese artist who married John Lennon and somehow earned a shoddy reputation thanks to many untruths about her relationship to the band.
Now, Ono is growing a new reputation. Recently Japanese Breakfast covered one of her songs (see below) and fans have commented how she has been treated poorly these past few decades.
But Ono probably doesn’t care much about all that. Because she didn’t care what anyone had to say prior, either. At least not in any way that deterred her art, her activism, or her work.
Read MoreBy Paul Carey-Kent • 2 February 2022
What to see in London in February? Here’s my pick of ten shows which are (a) free and (b) open through at least the first half of the month.
Read MoreThe largest film festival in Scandinavia is offering its spectators the opportunity to attend screenings under the influence of hypnosis.
Audience members spend 20 minutes in Gothenburg Film Festival's "hypnotic cinema" before observing a screening of 'Land of Dreams' by the Iranian-American director Shirin Neshat.
The session takes place under the supervision of hypnotist Fredrik Praesto, and sensations ranging from heightened concentration to a state of stupor have been reported.
The avant-garde move has proven popular with filmgoers.
Read MoreShilpa Gupta was born in 1976 in Mumbai, India. She studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbia. Recent solo shows include the Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2019; Yarat Contemporary Art Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, 2018; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands, 2012; and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, 2010. Gupta presented a solo project, ‘My East is Your West,’ at the Gujral Foundation in Venice, Italy, in 2015. Additionally, she participated in the 2019 58th Venice Biennale.
Read MoreAnchored in an exploration of erasure and oppression, censorship and surveillance, Shilpa Gupta's art activates lived histories in material compositions that amplify the conditions in which freedom is tested.
Read More“How bitter language has now become/and how narrow the door of the alphabet”. Those words, written by Adonis, the Syrian poet who was jailed in 1955 for his political activities, are especially poignant now. In 2020, according to campaigning organisation Freemuse, a record number of artists and writers found themselves in trouble with oppressive regimes. Those lines by Adonis are just one chord in an orchestra of voices that comprise “For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit”, a sound installation by Shilpa Gupta.
Read MoreAnd the Royal Academy will celebrate the South African artist William Kentridge (b.1955) with the largest exhibition of his work yet held in the UK. Widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today, Kentridge works in a broad range of media, including drawing, film, animation and dance, and often addresses his home country’s turbulent present and past.
Read MoreDavid Byrne and Yo La Tengo have shared their cover of Yoko Ono’s “Who Has Seen the Wind.” It’s the first single from Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono, a tribute album curated by Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard.
Read MoreThe Göteborg film festival is no stranger to stunts. It has previously featured screenings for a single audience member at a North Sea lighthouse, as well as “coffin screenings” in which lucky viewers were interred inside a sarcophagus to enhance their sensory empathy.
Read MoreThe Long Museum, located on Shanghai’s West Bund, is currently hosting the largest exhibition devoted to the work of Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota.
Read MoreYoko Ono’s 1971 track ‘Listen, The Snow Is Falling’ has today been made available on all streaming platforms for the first time.
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