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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

Lou and Sandy Grotta’s Richard Meier-designed home in New Jersey is a jewel box of ceramics, tapestries, basketry, and other handmade gems....

What If Your Body Turns into a Sculpture?: Interview with Sasha Waltz on "Körper" at SIFA 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 29, 2019 By Winnie Chen Dixon (600 words, four-minute read) Have you ever imagined dancers’ bodies turning into sculptures, as if time stood still? This is the impression of Körper (Body) , the signature dance performance of this year’s edition of the Singapore International Festival of Arts...

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...

In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste...

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 his third show at 111 Minna Gallery, Mike Davis offers new whimsical paintings that appear as a continuation of the Northern Renaissance while blending in notes of the artist’s own time period...

Modotti’s Diego Rivera Mural: Billionaires Club; Ministry of Education, Mexico D...