In one series, she considers issues of spectatorship at the Los Angeles Zoo. Box Stall (2013) shows the back end of a horse, highlighting what is included and excluded from the frame of vision.
Davida Nemeroff turns her camera toward scenes from everyday life, creating compositions within the frame of her lens that are strong, even introspective. She locates herself as a spectator, and is invested in a way of seeing that is simultaneously meditative, pedestrian, and intensely physical. A subtle yet anxious beauty comes across in her work. Focused in many ways on formal concerns of the photographic medium, Nemeroff takes on questions of sight and looking.
Easy to fold and carry, Jorge González’s Banquetas Chéveres (Chéveres Stools) embody the nomadic and flexible nature of the Escuela de Oficios...
Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history Fifteen art capitals are captured at their brilliant apogee in Caroline Campbell's book Keith Miller 6 February 2024 Share Detail of Hungry Ghosts Scroll (late 12th century) by an unknown artist Kyoto National Museum The last book I reviewed with this title was by the historian Simon Schama...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Will Hokkien die out?; Pineapple Lab shuts | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Photo via Phố Văn Blog August 12, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
Silver & Gold combines video, performance, and original costumes into a self-proclaimed “filmformance” that evokes the legendary filmmaker Jack Smith and his tribute to 1940s Dominican movie starlet Maria Montez in a magical and joyfully twisted exploration of race, glamour, sexuality, and the silver screen...
The ongoing “Sea Paintings” series is central to the practice of Jessica Warboys...
Workplace Is Building a Community-Led Gallery with Roots in England’s North East | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market Workplace Is Building a Community-Led Gallery with Roots in England’s North East Maxwell Rabb Feb 7, 2024 5:25PM Portrait of Miles Thurlow and Paul Moss in Gateshead, U...
She made gods for 70 years: meet the matriarch of Singapore’s last handcrafted Taoist deity producer | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Asia travel + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Tan Chwee Lian is the matriarch behind Say Tian Hng, Singapore’s last Taoist idol business...
Pandemic in the Philippines: A cultural sector on its own | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 17, 2020 By Katrina Stuart Santiago (2,200 words, 8-minute read) When I was first asked to write about “cultural leadership” in the Philippines, I turned up a blank...
Performance Making during a Pandemic: Of Innovation, Form and Embeddedness | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Kornkarn Rungsawang September 29, 2021 By Adriana Nordin Manan (1,000 words, 3-minute read) If arts panel discussions are meant to reflect the times, “Critical Responses to Performance-Making in A Post-Pandemic World” positioned itself well: at this stage of the pandemic, it was less about open-ended contemplation of how the performing arts can retain vitality amidst the prohibitive circumstances, and more about sharing examples of performances that exemplify the act of moving ahead despite the barriers...
The Chair (2012) foregrounds media-based tensions between analog and digital imaging technologies as a means of challenging the continued circulation of visual ephemera from India’s colonial past...
A photograph of a tin box full of marijuana simply titled Green Box, speaks to the constantly changing status of the substance–once taboo or illicit, now a symbol of a growing industry in Northern California...
Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...
The real digital nomads: how, on the Mongolian steppe, mobile internet is helping save nomadic traditions | South China Morning Post The real digital nomads: how, on the Mongolian steppe, mobile internet is helping save nomadic traditions Books and literature On the Mongolian steppe, nomads are embracing digitalisation to stay connected and do business without sacrificing the best of their traditional way of life Johan Nylander + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 9 Dec, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP Out in the wilds of the Mongolian steppe, nomadic herders are embracing the information age...