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This is not in Spanish looks at the ways in which the Chinese population in Mexico navigates the daily marginalization they encounter there. The neon translates as “this is not in Spanish,” making reference to both the famous Rene Magritte painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” as well as signs posted in the windows of Chinese establishments in Mexico.
Sergio De La Torre has worked with and documented the manifold ways in which citizens reinvent themselves in the city they inhabit, as well as the site-specific strategies they deploy to move “in and out modernity.” De La Torre often collaborates with his subjects, resulting in both intimate and critical reflections on topics like housing, immigration, and labor. De La Torre approaches these individuals not as victim-subjects, but as people who have attempted to reexamine the meaning of their actions in the context of shifting global conditions.
“Untitled” is inspired by the movie “Opening Night” by John Cassavetes with Gena Rowlands playing the role of a fallen woman, anguished by her distressed life...
Namasenda talks fashion fails, fashion grails and how much she loves to lie | Dazed â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow *ï¸âƒ£ Asterisk â Star Option Sliders âœ‰ï¸ Mail Exit Fashion Q+A The Stockholm-based musician behind bangers like ‘No Regrets’ and ‘deathrow bby’ also reveals her sci-fi influences, her dream girl group line-up, and which Spice Girls track she’d love to cover 12 December 2023 Text Emma Elizabeth Davidson Namasenda Gig Style by Michele Baron 29 Namasenda is a self-confessed liar...
Screening at 7pm at The Roxie In connection to his exhibition, Evidence of Things Not Seen at KADIST , photo-conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas selected these films as a homage to innovative and influential creators in the medium of film whose work supports social justice as well as explores contemporary notions of identity, race, history and a national legacy of resistance...
Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on 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: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on Plus: Scope gets in a pickle(ball), Perrotin says do look up and Elberto Muller takes the slow train The Art Newspaper 9 December 2023 Share Kate Pierson, singer with the 1980s band the B-52s, with one of the works on show at the Spectrum Miami art fair that were jointly created by band members and a group of chimps...
ChinaCapital: Dream, Hot Land, Interstellar Colonization by Pu Yingwei addresses a complicated phenomena of intertwined influences from different political powers, capital forces, and ideologies in the reality of China...
Indigenous educator and curator Sandra Benites, of the Guarani-Ñandeva people, narrates the origin myth of the bird Urutau in her native language...
The Utopia Project at Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum - Steve Lambert The Utopia Project at Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert wrote a book!!! Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA November 2022 Exhibitions Center for Artistic Activism The Utopia Project Location: Anacostia Community Museum, Washington D...
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In Suspension a young man is hanging in the air, falling, or perhaps drifting through time and space...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: UNESCO honour for Pencak Silat; Saigon car crash | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Khun Vannak December 18, 2019 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...
In collaboration with psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Leon Tan, Receding Triangular Square explores traditional Chinese and Taiwanese modalities of psychological healing as alternatives to dominant Western psychiatric and therapeutic practices...
Domes #1 represents a significant moment in Chicago’s career when her art began to change from a New York-influenced Abstract Expressionist style to one that reflected the pop-inflected art being made in Los Angeles...
In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics Curator Magalí Arriola picks out some highlights from the fair's large-scale presentation Elena Goukassian 9 December 2023 Share Lee Mullican, Entrance of the Entertainers (1984-85) Liliana Mora Although this year’s Meridians section at Art Basel in Miami Beach lacks an official theme, many of its large-scale works reference some sort of metaphorical largeness—whether global connectivity, the environment or the universal language of music...
Herculine’s Prophecy by Juliana Huxtable features a kneeling demon-figure on what appears to be a screen-print, placed on a wooden table, which has then been photographed and digitally altered to appear like a book cover, with a title and subtitle across the top, and a poem written across the bottom...
Karla Dickens’s collage Beneath the skim board addresses issues of discrimination and racism towards Indigenous communities in Australia through a constellation of historical and current events...