Conceived as a large-scale mural-like projection, Color of History, Sweating Rocks is a neo-futuristic, hybrid film that combines cinematic language, collage, animation, and inventive forms to highlight the plight of the peoples of the Sahara—and refugees in general—who have been displaced by oil-mining.
Ranu Mukherjee is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes hybrid films, works on paper, and collaborative projects. Her work focuses on processes of creolization, the figure of the nomad, speculative narratives, and the visual and political history of nineteenth-century Indian lithographs. Mukherjee’s work also generally refers to embodiment, ecology, science fiction, and the unknown to explore the narrative excess and material conditions brought on by global capitalism.
In her film Retiro (2019), Natalia Lassalle-Morillo considers how women pass down memories to their kin as they age...
SEE WHAT SEE: BOYS' LOVE (BL) DRAMAS | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 13, 2021 By Lainie Yeoh I grew up in an era where queer films were rare exceptions and it was your holy gay-af duty to watch all the ones you could access...
Sotheby’s Builds Better Relationships in Las Vegas Brooke Lampley presents Oliver Barker with the traditional white gloves after a sold out auction The Thursday before Sotheby’s Saturday-night-in-Las-Vegas sale of 11 Picasso works from the Bellagio’s eponymous restaurant, Brooke Lampley was feeling more than a little “trepidation.” MGM Resorts International, the corporation that had bought Steve Wynn’s Mirage Resorts in 2000—including Wynn’s pet art-cum-luxury-dining-experience restaurant at the Bellagio decorated with a number of significant works by the Modern master—had decided to cash out on the art market gains of the last 20 years...
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
Cakap-Cakap: Interview with Anaïs López for The Migrant | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 28, 2021 In this month’s Cakap-Cakap (chit-chat), ArtsEquator speaks with visual artist Anaïs López about her multimedia exhibition The Migrant which is currently showing at the Chapel Gallery, Objectifs...
TeamLab Borderless, Tokyo interactive digital art museum, makes a comeback with boundary-breaking installations | 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 TeamLab co-founder Toshiyuki Inoko stands inside the “Bubble Universe” installation at the new teamLab Borderless, an interactive digital art museum in Tokyo’s Azabudai Hills development in Japan...
Citing Silencing of Arab Voices, Artists Cut Ties With Art Canada Institute Skip to content Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, "Untitled" (2020), color digital photograph, inkjet on vinyl, 60 inches x 120 inches (image courtesy of the artist) A number of artists and curators have said they are cutting ties with Art Canada Institute (ACI) after the arts nonprofit was accused late last month of attempting to suppress the voices of a group of Arab and Muslim artists...
Gozo Yoshimasu’s visual-poetry series Dear Monster (Kaibutsu-kun) explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami...
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Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: George Clinton is in the pink, Alex Israel chills out, and life models draw a (drawing) crowd Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 blog Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: George Clinton is in the pink, Alex Israel chills out, and life models draw a (drawing) crowd Plus: a million reasons to score at basketball, Hew Locke's golden opportunity, and your chance to win a koala The Art Newspaper 7 December 2023 Share Reasons to be cheerful: George Clinton in front of his work Evolutionary Directory: Which way do you want to be “what”? at Jeffrey Deitch’s stand...
Italy’s embattled junior culture minister resigns amid scandals Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Appointments & departures news Italy’s embattled junior culture minister resigns amid scandals The critic, curator and commentator Vittorio Sgarbi was being pressured to resign amid multiple investigations into his conduct James Imam 2 February 2024 Share Vittorio Sgarbi speaks to reporters in Venice in 2020 Photo by Pietro Luca Cassarino, via Flickr Vittorio Sgarbi, the controversial Italian art critic and polemicist who is being investigated for art crimes, has resigned as a junior culture minister with immediate effect, prompting a flurry of celebratory messages from his political foes...
Icaro Lira has been developing the project “Museum of the Foreigner” since 2015, in which he recounts the trajectories of populations inside Brazil, from the north to the big cities of the south...
The Duty of Interpretation - 3 Quarks Daily Skip to content by Rebecca Baumgartner I’m currently reading The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in translation, and it’s got me thinking about how much we rely on translators to bring us literature from around the world, and how important it is to be able to trust what they tell us...