Browbeaten by the captain, exploited by the doctor, deceived by Marie, Wozzeck leads us to reflect on the most tragic effects of madness both on a isolated individual and on a group. This expressionist world blends just as strikingly into the staging of William Kentridge, one of the major visual artists of the contemporary scene. His drawings and videos appear to us like projections of Wozzeck’s imagination, exposing the horror of the First World War.
Read MoreChiharu Shiota has become the latest artist to take over the arched depths of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne. Titled Multiple Realities, her installation is a poetic landscape of web-like yarn, both serene and unsettling.
Read MoreArtist, musician and activist Yoko Ono is occupying digital mega screens across the world to transmit a message of peace.
Some of the largest LED billboards in major metropolitan areas -- including Piccadilly Lights in London, Times Square in New York and K-Pop Square in Seoul -- will be interrupted at 8:22 p.m. local time to broadcast the phrase "Imagine Peace" in bold black text every night for the rest of March.
Read MoreThe Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition opens with Cell IX, 1999 (pictured below) one of the wire cages that Louise Bourgeois filled with memories of her dysfunctional family.
In referring to voyeurism, Cell IX makes a brilliant introduction to an exhibition whose theme is the artist’s studio, since our desire to peek behind the scenes is prompted largely by hope of accessing the artist’s psyche and finding out what motivates them.
Read MoreYoko Ono’s art, whether performance or visual, acts as a two-way mirror, throwing the viewers’ reactions back at them and revealing some deep inner truths about her audience. Involved in New York’s avant-garde scene, she both collaborated with other artists and created pieces of her own, like her famous 1964 “Cut Piece,” hoping to unsettle and inspire those who engaged with it.
Read MoreA 55-year-old Parisian gallery crosses the Atlantic for the first time.
“When I left New York, I always knew I would come back some day,” Templon said. “We have a lot of collectors in New York, and the gallery has a long relationship with the city. The gallery represented a lot of New York artists in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.” Several artists currently in the gallery’s stable lack New York representation as of now, including Chiharu Shiota, Iván Navarro, Prune Nourry, and Jim Dine.
Read MoreShirin Neshat: Land of Dreams
Shirin Neshat’s first major Canadian exhibition in 20 years focuses on her most recent project, Land of Dreams, which marks a pivot in Neshat’s gaze toward the “western world.” The central work that gives the exhibition its title comprises over 100 photographic portraits and a video installation, converging photography and film into an immersive experience that presents a perspective on contemporary America.
By Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Feb 24, 2022,10:30am EST.
Known for weaving webs of thread and wool to create dreamlike, immersive environments that reveal human emotions, Berlin-based Chiharu Shiota represented Japan at the 2015 Venice Biennale and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo held a major retrospective of her work in 2019, which has since become a traveling exhibition. Now the Guimet Asian Art Museum in Paris will be giving her carte blanche from March 16 to June 6, 2022 in her first solo museum show in France. Exploring anxiety in the COVID-19 era as our everyday lives shrank and we experienced isolation in our doll’s houses, she tackles themes of immobility, silence, confinement and an uncertain future. I sit down with her to discuss her artistic practice.
Read MoreThe artwork is based on Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poems, ‘Les Fleurs du Mal.’
Back in October, Parley for the Oceans partnered up with graffiti legend Kenny Scharf on a series of surfboards that paid homage to the shorelines of Tulum. The non-profit returns with a new surf-inspired collaboration with German artist, Rosemarie Trockel.
Read MoreThe second part of a vast collection of contemporary art acquired over decades by the real estate mogul Harry Macklowe and his former wife, Linda, was revealed on Friday by Sotheby’s.
The auction house will sell 30 additional pieces from the Macklowe collection—including landmark works by Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol —at a standalone sale on May 16 in New York that is expected to achieve in the region of US$200 million.
Read MoreThe first auction of works from the highly-regarded collection brought in $676 million in November last year.
Works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Mark Rothko will star in Sotheby's second auction of works from the Macklowe Collection, which was put together by real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife Linda.
Read MoreMusée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA). February 18–May 15, 2022.
Artists: Miriam Cahn, Banu Cennetoğlu, Michel François, Philip Guston, Thomas Hirschhorn, Amar Kanwar, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Sigalit Landau, Nalini Malani, Teresa Margolles, Zanele Muholi, Félix Vallotton, Fabrice Gygi.
Withdrawal, silence, resilience, outcry, indignation, protestation, action, reflection, satire, humor...this collective show exemplifies the forms of resistance artists have developed when faced with the great challenges of our age—those forms amount to survival strategies.
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