The German painter Gerhard Richter, one of the most celebrated—and expensive—living artists, is now represented exclusively by David Zwirner, the New York-headquartered gallery revealed 7 December. He will have his first solo show with the gallery, at one of its Manhattan spaces, in March 2023.
Read MoreThe Book brings together many of the poets featured in the installation—every one of them persecuted for their words. Edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi, conceived in dialogue with artist Shilpa Gupta’s multimedia installation, For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: Encounters with Prison (Westland Books, 2022) brings together many of the poets featured in the installation—every one of them persecuted for their words. It is an immersive experience, featuring illustrations and images alongside the written pieces. It is also the culmination of an effort of collaboration and support, often under extremely difficult conditions, forming a network that spans countries.
Read MoreShirin Neshat’s artwork – which encompasses film, installation, performance and photography – broadly addresses the role of women in Iranian culture. Born in Iran in 1957, the artist, who has lived in New York since 1975, cannot return to her homeland for fear of retribution from the oppressive autocratic regime. Assistant editor Sean Burns spoke to Neshat about the current uprisings in Iran, triggered by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September, and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents.
Read MoreHis nose has starred in a musical theater production based on a short story by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, staged at the Metropolitan Opera. Like many elements in Kentridge’s art, the nose — well-designed, idiosyncratic, functional — becomes warmly symbolic of larger, polarizing historical and political forces through a whirlwind process of drawing, animating, scoring, filming, and staging. See for Yourself, a major exhibition pulled from the private collection of a Milwaukee-based couple, Jan Serr and John Shannon, brought Kentridge and his entourage of actors and musicians to town recently.
Read MoreThe collaborative installation was brought together by Iranian artist Mahvash Mostala, Hank Willis Thomas, Wide Awakes and French artist JR. One week ago, a group of Iranian artists teamed up with Woman Life Freedom, Hank Willis Thomas‘s nonprofit For Freedoms and JR to raise awareness to the humanitarian crisis that has persisted in Iran for the past three months.
Read MoreA new art installation centered around the ongoing protests in Iran has opened at FDR Four Freedoms Park on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. Artists, activists and political figures spoke out about human rights abuses and women’s rights at the installation’s grand opening last week. “When we say that we must keep our eyes on Iran, we mean that what is happening deserves not only our attention but our vision,” said photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat at the opening. The featured artists, she added, are working “in solidarity with the courageous Iranians who are risking their lives to express their human rights.”
Read MoreDie Brutalität wie Absurdität normativer Ordnungen tritt im Werk von Rosemarie Trockel offen hervor. Definitionen, Einschränkungen, Bevormundung und Gewalt aufgrund von Gender werden sichtbar und durchschaubar.
Read MoreDu 26 novembre au 30 avril 2023, le Musée Macan à Jakarta présente une rétrospective de l’artiste plasticienne japonaise Chiharu Shiota sous le titre « The Soul Trembles ». Souvent issues d'expériences personnelles, ses œuvres ont captivé des personnes du monde entier et de tous horizons en questionnant des concepts universels tels que l'identité, les frontières et l'existence.
Read MoreEach artist offers personal views of the need for global cooperation and continued policy changes regarding environmental justice, sea level rise, ocean plastic pollution, gender equity and the return to basic humanity and empathy in this unprecedented exhibition. The highly visible exhibition may be seen in the day and night on Kura Kura Bali.
Read MoreIn his 2013 video “Second-Hand Reading,” South African artist William Kentridge appears as if walking across the pages of a dictionary. Beside him, as he makes this contemplative passage, words in black block letters briefly overlay the alphabetic entries: “WHICHEVER PAGE YOU OPEN,/THERE YOU ARE.” It’s classic Kentridge — the artist tweaking scale and space to physically occupy an authoritative text, both locating and implicating himself within.
Read MoreAt any one time, the NGV has a significant percentage of its riches hidden away out of sight. It’s the same in any of the world’s large galleries, as their floor space simply does not allow all works to be exhibited at once. This exhibition offers a glimpse into some of the key works acquired by the NGV over the past decade – in some ways acting as a survey of the state gallery’s collection across art and design, including contemporary furniture, lighting, painting, film, sculpture and installation, many of which have not been on display for years.
Read MoreA series of enormous mosaic murals by Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith, first announced in October, have been revealed inside the new Grand Central Madison train terminal, which opens to the public later this month in Manhattan. The glass mosaics are the main public art attractions in the terminal, which is part of an $11bn project to connect the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to Grand Central Terminal that stretches between 43rd and 48th streets along Madison Avenue.
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