Third Realm Venice Series #2

Composed of four images, the series Sleeping Elephant in the Axis of Yogyakarta (2011) explores the artist’s observation of how Javanese mythology and cosmology have marked the geography of Yogyakarta, the cultural centre of Indonesia...

South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....

Like many of his other sculptural works, the source of I am the Greatest is actually a historical photograph of an identical button pin from the 1960s...

His Deck Painting I recalls the simplistic stripes of conceptual artist Daniel Buren, or the minimal lines of twentieth century abstract painting, but is in reality a readymade, fashioned from repurposed fabric of deck chairs...

Composed of four images, the series Sleeping Elephant in the Axis of Yogyakarta (2011) explores the artist’s observation of how Javanese mythology and cosmology have marked the geography of Yogyakarta, the cultural centre of Indonesia...

South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....

Bread and Roses takes its name from a phrase famously used on picket signs and immortalized by the poet James Oppenheim in 1911...

Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture...

For the two-channel work Asking the Repentistas – Peneira & Sonhador – to remix my octopus works Shimabuku asked two Brazilian street singers to compose a ballad about his previous works with octopi (in which he created traditional Japanese ceramic vessels to catch octopi, with a fisherman who took him on his boat to test them out as we can see on one of the channel)...

Opinion | How the word ‘hostage’ used to mean something quite different to its modern definition, as the Israel-Gaza war rumbles on | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Hostages who were abducted by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack on Israel are handed over by militants to the International Red Cross in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip on November 30, 2023...

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Two Pratt Graduate Programs Moving to Brooklyn Navy Yard Skip to content A view of Dock 72 with construction cranes in the background (photo by Rhea Nayyar/ Hyperallergic ) Two of Pratt Institute’s graduate programs are decamping from the Pfizer building in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a bayside view and expanded facilities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard later this year...

The headdresses, woven from artificial hair braids, symbolize historical icons including Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah, Fela Kuti and King Guézo of Dahomey...

Tarantism is the name of disease which appeared in southern Italy, resulting from the bite of a spider called Tarantula...

“Watching the films of Omer Fast confounds our expectations of the medium...

In this work, Omer Fast probes the feelings experienced by young people involved in an acts of war...

Vietnamese director's debut feature The Third Wife wins award at Toronto Film Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 1, 2018 The directorial debut from Nguyen Phuong Anh, also known as Ash Mayfair, won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) award at last week’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)...

As she awaits the arrive of her third child, collector and entrepreneur Shanyan Koder welcomes us into her London residence to talk art, family and more....

In John Jacobsmeyer’s parallel reality, pop culture and art history collide with the backdrops of his suburban youth...

Drinks at 6pm, event at 7pm A quarter century after Wojtowicz’s Brooklyn heist, Pierre Huyghe ‘s two-channel video installation, The Third Memory (2000), allows the charismatic mastermind to give his version of that fateful day in a reconstructed set of the bank...