Vadehra Art Gallery presents a varied roster of artists grappling with contemporary themes of personal memory, mythology, capitalism, and the socio-political relevance of lived reality. Shilpa Gupta challenges norms of perception and representation with a neon sculpture that reads, “Still they know not what I dream”.
Read MoreFrom Rosemarie Trockel’s reconsiderations of knitwear to Nicola Costantino’s long-standing interest in corsetry, the exhibited artists’ varied inquiries consider the art of dress as fabricating exteriors both thick and thin. Their works reverberate with novelist James Joyce’s assertion that “modern man has an epidermis rather than a soul” and its disturbing (if incorrectly gendered) aptitude.
Read MoreWhen he was three, he wanted to be an elephant. When he was 15, he wanted to be an opera conductor. But William Kentridge followed a different path altogether — to become one of the most celebrated visual artists working today. From charcoal drawings and sculptures to immersive videos, theatre and opera productions, his work engages with politics and memory.
Read MoreWilliam Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows is a sprawling retrospective of the celebrated South African artist’s animated films, prints, bronze sculptures, theater models, installations, tapestries, and more on view at the Broad. Perhaps not surprisingly, since the work is part of the Broad’s collection, the show is built around The Refusal of Time (2012), a piece commissioned for Documenta 13. In a darkened room, five films are projected on the walls; at the center is a lumbering, bellowed, pistoned, wooden contraption moving back and forth on a track, which was inspired by pneumatic clocks, a nineteenth-century French innovation that sought to synchronize a city’s timepieces via compressed air running through underground tubes.
Read MoreEven today, works by female artists are still underrepresented in the Kunstmuseum Basel collection. The same is true for leading art museums around the world. Now as before, women still need to assert their importance as protagonists of (Western) art history. A selection of key works by female artists held by Kunstmuseum Basel — including Guerrilla Girls, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, and Rosemarie Trockel — anchor this group exhibition.
Read MoreKiki Smith’s response to the site was direct. “River Light” is inspired by the East River and the light that falls on it, yet at the same time the imagery also evokes the bursts of lights inspired by the constellations and stars in the sky-ceiling above the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal.
Read MoreLes réseaux sociaux s’enflamment autour de la nouvelle vidéo, « The Fury », de la photographe et vidéaste exilée aux Etats-Unis. Les opposants au régime ne se reconnaissent pas dans sa vision du corps de la femme iranienne. La polémique pourrait sembler picrocholine. Elle met à nu une bataille d’images et un conflit de générations au sein même des opposants au régime islamiste.
Read MoreGladstone Gallery is pleased to present The Fury, an exhibition of new works by Shirin Neshat. This show comprises a double-channel video installation and a series of black and white photographs with hand-drawn calligraphy of poems by Iranian poetForough Farrokhzad. These multidimensional bodies of work continue upon her incisive art making practice that focuses on the female body as both a battleground for ideology and a source of strength.
Read MoreKiki Smith: Free Fall is Kiki Smith’s first solo exhibition held at a public museum in Asia. Occupying a unique space in contemporary American art of the 1980s–90s through her deconstructive expression of the body, Smith continues to be active in her practice. By way of Seoul Museum of Art’s institutional agenda of “production” and exhibition agenda of “poetry,” the show has taken the keyword “free fall” in presenting features of the artist that encompass aspects of a producer in multi-media experimentation, as well as those that have allowed her to vary her formative rhythms according to the undulations of the times.
Read MoreThis piece of William Kentridge, “The Refusal of Time,” is one of 130 featured works of South African-born artist William Kentridge on display in a new Broad retrospective, “In Praise of Shadows.” Meant to encapsulate Kentridge’s career, the exhibition runs through April 2023 and includes the 13 pieces by the artist already in the museum’s collection.
Read MoreArtist Shilpa Gupta’s haunting, affective and compelling multi-channel sound installation, For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, gives voice to 100 dissident poets ––Malay Roychoudhury, Ashraf Fayadh, Huang Xiang, Osip Mandelstam, Mahmoud Darwish, Martin Carter, Faiz Ahmad Faiz among others–– from across the globe silenced by the State. As Gupta says in an interview included in the book, the artwork is titled after a poem written by the Azerbaijani poet Ali Imaduddin Nasimi (1369-1417), better known by his pen name Nasimi.
Read MoreIn early December, over 300 volunteers crowded onto the lawn of New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, designed by Louis Kahn. The crowd gathered to form a waving embodiment of the free-flowing hair of Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old girl found dead after joining a protest in Tehran in September over the death, in police custody, of Mahsa Amini. As part of the ongoing Eyes on Iran demonstrations, French street artist JR invited the volunteers to move their arms behind his large-scale portrait of Nika, installed near a version of Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s Offered Eyes, whose penetrating gaze animated the park’s steps across the East River from the United Nations headquarters.
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