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Tony Labat
Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and riffing on the “I Want You” army recruitment campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s, Labat asked Bay Area residents to interpret the slogan and make their own demands of the public in a series of live performance auditions. Given one minute to seize the voice of authority, contestants were asked to be the finger-pointing Uncle Sam, and their performances—as on the TV program American Idol —were voted on by a live audience. Five winners were chosen and their image and slogans appeared on posters throughout San Francisco to coincide with the presidential elections.
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Hank Willis Thomas
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.
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Zhang Peili
In the video installation A Gust of Wind , Zhang continues to explore notions of perspective and melds them seamlessly with a veiled but incisive social critique. His ultimate goal is to reveal the ways in which social image is constructed and to cast doubt on the ephemeral vision of a middle-class utopia offered by mass media.
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Elisheva Biernoff
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Last Postcards is a series of three small double-sided paintings on plywood in which Biernoff imagines the last communications from explorers lost in the wilderness. Biernoff’s choice of Everett Ruess, Percy Fawcett, and the conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader is particularly telling. On one level, the Last Postcards analogize the nineteenth-century explorer with the contemporary artist who looks for purpose in their work.
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Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
Photojournalist with Two Cameras restages a portrait of a photojournalist from the background of an old photograph of protest published in South China Morning Post on January 10, 2010 under the headline “Return of the Radicals: Recent angry protests are nothing new.” The photojournalist in the photograph, probably from a protest of earlier decades, was capturing the scene of a protester’s arrest while wearing two cameras. January of 2010 was a time of pro-Democracy demonstrators called for the release of activist Liu Xiaobo, drafter of the Charter 08 manifesto calling for the end of authoritarian rule, was sentenced to 11 years in prison one month earlier. Leung’s isolating and highlighting of the photographer by bringing him from the original photograph’s background to the foreground of his studio shot calls attention to the two older cameras and the journalist’s retro-style clothing.
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Anthony Discenza
In Anthony Discenza’s 23-minute audio loop that makes up A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats , a nondescript male voice narrates a series of unlikely pairings: “think Dune meets South Pacific;” “think dubstep meets the Magna Carta;” “think the Food Network meets Igmar Bergman.” Given without inflection or emotion, this recitation uses the structure of a Hollywood elevator pitch to sketch out an unknown project, idea, or structure, conflating and collapsing cultural referents into an implausible mass of contradictions.
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Stephen G. Rhodes
For his series of digital collages Excerpt (Sealed)… Rhodes appropriated multiple images from mass media and then sprayed an X on top of their glass and frame. This visual seal refers to the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in which rescue workers spray painted the doors of the houses they searched giving the date, the team and the number of bodies found. Excerpt (Sealed) (Brown) is a multilayered collage with contradictory imagery—from New Orleans debris to the American eagle and a theater curtain.
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Paloma Contreras Lomas
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Paloma Contreras Lomas sometimes incorporates large scale drawing into her practice. For Contreras, drawing is a deeply personal and corporeal exercise that she relates to writing and narration. Her charcoal drawing Bugs Bunny Behind a Mesophile Bush features a gigantic hat providing shelter to the simultaneously identifiable and unidentifiable cartoon character hiding behind a wild bus.
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Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
Office Lady with a Red Umbrella restages a figure from a 1980 postcard made from a photograph from 1950’s. The retro-glamor of the 1950s style is restyled devoid of the original context of a Hong Kong street scene, where the “office lady” is walking on Queens Road of the Central district. With the “office lady” facing away from the viewer with a bare background, an introspective tone is created in Leung’s restaging while highlighting the red umbrella resonating with a red pencil skirt emblematic of the identity of the professional urban woman when Hong Kong was under British rule.
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The Propeller Group and Superflex
Fade In (the whole title of the film is actually the entire five page script) is a collaboration with the Danish artist collective Superflex (group of freelance artist–designer–activists committed to social and economic change, founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen). There are several time layers to understand the story behind this film. In 1601, the San Jago set sail from Goa for Lisbon; the cargo included the first consignment of South East Asian porcelain destined for the European market.
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Köken Ergun
The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on 10 Muharram, 61 AH (October 10 th , 680) in Karbala, situated in present day Iraq, when Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, was killed. This battle is central to Shia Muslim belief in which Hussein’s martyrdom is commemorated each year, in a celebration called Ashura which symbolises the birth of Muslim division still at issue today between the Shia and Sunni. During Ashura , the artist worked in close collaboration with the people of Zeynebiye (referring to Hussein’s courageous sister, Zeyneb), documenting their preparations for the ceremonies, which involve a mass theatre performance and the isolated, weeping ritual at the end of the Ashura day.
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Yu Honglei
Yu Honglei’s video and mixed media works riff on familiar motifs from the Western art historical canon and reimagine them through a playful but subversive culture jamming of their original meaning. Life (2013), for example, depicts a tiled backdrop of various images and stills associated with the work of American Pop artist Andy Warhol. Digital reproductions of his silkscreens featuring public figures like Elizabeth Taylor, Chairman Mao, and Debbie Harry form an amalgamation of modern art iconography, while repeated images of Warhol himself serve as a constant reminder that even after his death, the artist is still decidedly present in our art historical consciousness.
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Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker
In Tapitapultas (2012), Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker comment on mass consumerism and pollution by way of a game they invented. The artists used disposable spoons as catapults to shoot thousands of plastic bottle caps at a hole in a concrete platform. The platform was once part of a U. S. military installation in the Panama Canal Zone, and it is now an observation deck in a nature park.
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Laurent Montaron
This film refers directly and fictionally to one of the first media dramas: the burning of the Zeppelin aircraft LZ 129 Hindenburg as it landed in New York in 1937. The power of these images, which were widely diffused in the press, had a profound haunting impact on people’s consciousness. This mode of transport – both futuristic and obsolete – crystallizes a collective imaginary which was fed by cinematic, literary and mythological fiction as Barthes would put it.
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Ed Ruscha
In 1970, Ruscha began a series of paintings made from stains. He experimented with a variety of materials (gun powder, dust, blood, among many others) to leave surface traces of different objects. The resulting images are negative shapes amidst blurry environments like Splinters and Seconal in which a grey surface is imprinted with the materials mentioned in the title.
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Marlon de Azambuja
Following a series of related works, Brutalismo Americano by Marlon de Azambuja is a site-specific sculptural installation produced during the artist’s residency at Kadist, San Francisco in 2017. Treating the city as an object of attention, de Azambuja collected building materials from the surrounding area over a period of ten days to conceive of an architecture in situ. The work is not meant to mimic any of San Francisco’s own architecture, or to be a maquette or portrait of the cityscape, but instead a singular, constructive gesture.
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Nicolás Grum
El gran pacto de Chile (The Great Pact) and La balserita de Puerto Gala (The Raft) were part of the “Museo Futuro”, an exhibition in which the artist presented nine miniature dioramas staging fragments of Chile’s history, from its colonial invasions to the present. Through the episodes he chose to depict, the artist focused on historical narratives, the way the story is told, and the supposed irrefutability of historical facts. Museo Futuro (“Future Museum”) stands within a tradition of artists who re-read history and offer their interpretation of it through the distopic lens of the museum display.
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Nicolás Grum
El gran pacto de Chile (The Great Pact) and La balserita de Puerto Gala (The Raft) were part of the “Museo Futuro”, an exhibition in which the artist presented nine miniature dioramas staging fragments of Chile’s history, from its colonial invasions to the present. Through the episodes he chose to depict, the artist focused on historical narratives, the way the story is told, and the supposed irrefutability of historical facts. Museo Futuro (“Future Museum”) stands within a tradition of artists who re-read history and offer their interpretation of it through the distopic lens of the museum display.
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American Artist
From suicides, to gang violence, to the epidemic abuse of force by police departments (predominantly against Black men), to school and mass shootings, there is perhaps no more urgent issue in the United States than gun control. The color blue is a proxy for both sadness, and a color that is emblematic of American law enforcement services. I Am Blue, 1 by American Artist is a sculpture that fuses a school desk with a ballistic shield.
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Mohamed Bourouissa
The film called Temps Mort (Dead Time or Time Out) presents an exchange of short video footage assembled into one final edit. Remotely driven footage of daily life in prison, the banality of a sink, of a plant or a plate of pasta are offtset against scenes of life outside, in the streets of Paris, a night of love or seascapes. The dialogue between the inmate and the artist occurs by text messages and captures this exceptional situation of exchange, sharing et perhaps dependence.
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Bruce Conner
Unlike many of his earlier films which often present poignant critiques of mass media and its deleterious effects on American culture, EASTER MORNING , Conner’s final video work before his death in 2008, constitutes a far more meditative filmic essay in which a limited amount of images turn into compelling, almost hypnotic visual experience. The video presents us with a reinterpretation of footage from his unreleased avant-garde film, Easter Morning Raga , from 1966. In contrast to his more famous pieces like A Movie (1958) and Crossroads (1976) which are juxtapositions of fragments from newsreels, soft-core pornography, and B movies, the images in EASTER MORNING serve as a reinterpretation of footage.
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Mohamed Bourouissa
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In his photographic series Périphérique (2005–2008), Mohamed Bourouissa used the composition of classical paintings to stage the portrait of friends and young people in the banlieue s (suburbs). He states “by deconstructing the clichés surrounding this subject, I deal with the problematic power struggle and its mechanics.” This series follows various themes explored throughout the work of Bourouissa. For Temps Morts, his first film, he depicted a yearlong series of mobile phone exchanges with someone in prison.
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David Horvitz
On March 30, 2015, at 5:52am, David Horvitz caught his daughter, Ela Melanie, as she was being born, in the back of an Uber driving through Midtown Manhattan. He held her up in the morning light as the car drove down Park Avenue, blocks away from the Museum of Modern Art, where Zanna Gilbert, the mother, was a fellow. After arriving at the hospital, Horvitz tweeted a photo and later e-mailed his friends and family with additional images.
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General Idea
AIDS Ring by General Idea is a cast metal ring, which takes as its basis Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE” design, appropriating its pop aesthetic, and totalizing, simplistic universal messaging to instead emphasize the severity of the AIDS epidemic that occurred in the 1970s. This visual detournement of Indiana’s sculpture into the form of a ring is an indictment of pop art’s apolitical nature, as well as of its increasingly commodified status. General Idea instead proposes that art’s expansive platform for messaging be used to spread awareness and create accountability for political negligence of the AIDS epidemic.
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Alexandre da Cunha
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. It directly engages with the readymade, a subject that Alexandre de Cunha takes up throughout his practice, often inflecting it with a tropical, and South American–inspired materiality and painterly style that could potentially come across as a stereotype. Here, da Cunha transforms the component parts into a composition that highlights often-overlooked materials of artistic production and cultural mass-production.
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Mohamed Bourouissa
Temps Mort is the result of one year of mobile phone exchanges of still images and videos between the artist and a person incarcerated in prison. Mohamed Bourouissa directs the scenes to be reconstructed inside the prison from a distance. With sketches and instructions, he indicates in detail the sort of shots he would like to receive.
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Mohamed Bourouissa
Dave is part of Mohamed Bourouissa’s project Horse Day , which stemmed from a residency the artist conducted in Philadelphia in 2014. There, he discovered the activities of the Fletcher Street Riding Club, a historical stable and training program built by and aimed at young African Americans. Weaving together two predominant symbols of American lifestyle and culture—the cowboy and the car—Bourouissa collaborated with local riders and artists to organize a contest celebrating the best adorned horse, in the manner of car tuning competitions.
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Mohamed Bourouissa
After seeing Martha Camarillo’s photographs of horsemen in Strawberry Mansion -an impoverished Philadelphia neighbourhood- Mohamed Bourouissa travelled to see the urban stables run by African American men. For eight months, he observed, drew and photographed this community. As the community and Bourouissa became closer throughout his stay, the artist suggested that they organize a competition, called “Horse Day”, in which artists from other neighborhoods would be invited to create costumes for the horses.
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Guan Xiao
David is a five-minute pseudo music video that features an upbeat melodic soundtrack with a duet by the artist Guan Xiao and frequent collaborator (and KADIST collection) artist Yu Honglei. Three screens display a collection of home videos filmed and uploaded by tourists at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence capturing Michelangelo’s eponymous masterpiece. The mass popularity and commodification of this artwork is further exaggerated with the numerous forms that we encounter and consume the image or likeness of the sculpture in our daily lives.
Hank Willis Thomas
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Plainfield, New Jersey
Mohamed Bourouissa
Mohamed Bourouissa became known in the 2000s with a series of photographs on young people in the suburbs of Paris...
Wong Wai Yin
Wong Wai Yin is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with a variety of media ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, installations and photography...
Thomas Kilpper
- location: Stuttgart, Deutschland
- year born: 1956
- gender: male
- nationality: German
Nguyen Trinh Thi
Nguyen Trinh Thi is a moving image pioneer, not only within the landscape of contemporary art in Vietnam, but also broader South East Asia...
Tony Labat
Since the early 1980s, Cuban-born Tony Labat has been an important participant in the California performance and video scene...
Takeshi Murata
Underlining the temporality of nostalgia, memory, and narratives crafted through cinematic pop culture, the American artist Takeshi Murata has constructed a body of animated works that explore the lifespan of moving images and their role in the shaping of shared cultural histories...
Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
Leung Chi Wo tends to highlight in his art the boundaries between viewing and voyeurism, real and fictional, and art and the everyday...
Shilpa Gupta
- location: Mumbai, India
- year born: 1976
- gender: female
- nationality: Indian
- home town: Mumbai, India
Mercedes Dorame
Mercedes Dorame is a photographer and member of the Tongva tribe in Los Angeles...
Stephen G. Rhodes
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1977
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Houston, Texas
The Propeller Group and Superflex
The Propeller Group was established in 2006 as a cross-disciplinary structure...
Bruce Conner
- location: San Francisco, California
- year born: 1933
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: McPherson, Kansas
Ahmad Fuad Osman
Ahmad Fuad Osman is of a generation that came of age in a Malay world whose artists were eager to speak about socio-political issues on terms that broadened questions of nationhood, ethnicity, faith, and historical fact, doubtful of the grand narrative that had been propounded since the race riots of the late 1960s...
Ed Ruscha
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1937
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Omaha, Nebraska
Trisha Donnelly
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1974
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: San Francisco, California
Apostolos Georgiou
Inescapably political, Apostolos Georgiou’s paintings are realized by bold and mastered brush strokes...
David Horvitz
Although the practice plays a central role in the work of David Horvitz, his work is at the opposite of fine art objects...
Miguel Calderon
Miguel Calderón is a Mexican artist and writer...
Yin-Ju Chen
- year born: 2011
- gender: female
- nationality: American & Taiwanese
A.K. Burns
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Larry Bell
- location: Venice, California
- year born: 1939
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Chicago, Illinois
General Idea
The Canadian artist collective General Idea (Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson), active from 1967-1993, was an instrumental source of early conceptual art through their multidisciplinary practice...
Paloma Contreras Lomas
A writer and an artist, Paloma Contreras Lomas has developed a practice in which literature and fiction play a major role, allowing her to address a series of topics regarding race and class that are rarely broached by a traditional Mexican society...
Zhang Peili
- location: Hangzhou, China
- year born: 1957
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Hangzhou, China
Laurent Montaron
Using a variety of media – photography, film, sound, installation, sculpture – Laurent Montaron’s work ‘renders an image’ in Mélancolia (2005) the magnetic band of an echo chamber endlessly loops and unwinds to become a hypnotic serpentine line...
Marlon de Azambuja
Based on ideas of architecture, and by means of appropriation of public space and studio-based material operations, Marlon de Azambuja’s work creates new idioms for thinking and inhabiting the built environment...
Sabelo Mlangeni
Photographer Sabelo Mlangeni’s black and white images capture the intimate, everyday moments of communities in contemporary South Africa...
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about 11 months ago (02/09/2024)
How cute became the defining aesthetic of the internet age | Dazed â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow *ï¸âƒ£ Asterisk â Star Option Sliders âœ‰ï¸ Mail Exit Life & Culture Feature From emojis to coquettes and Hello Kitty, cute’s transformative potential is shaping how we see ourselves both on and off-screen Text Günseli Yalcinkaya 9 February 2024 Cute (2024) 13 When Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, was asked in 2014 to name one use of the internet that he didn’t anticipate, he answered with a single word: kittens...
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about 11 months ago (02/07/2024)
Although we’re not the biggest fans of social media and prefer to connect with our lovely and talented audience directly on this website, via newsletters , or in person, we’ve discovered meaningful engagement in a few of the newer social platforms like Mastodon and Threads where we can reach readers with little or no algorithmic filters...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
Aesthetica Magazine - Mixed-Media in Focus: 5 Group Exhibitions for 2024 Mixed-Media in Focus: 5 Group Exhibitions for 2024 Textiles...
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about 13 months ago (12/17/2023)
VHS makes a comeback with ‘tapeheads’ fueling a retro analog revival - The Washington Post With VHS and video stores, ‘tapeheads’ are fueling an analog revival By Reis Thebault December 17, 2023 at 6:00 a.m...
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about 13 months ago (12/14/2023)
Why Inflatable Art Is Blowing Up in the Art Scene | Observer A Designs in Air installation in the Philadelphia Navy Yard...
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about 13 months ago (12/12/2023)
LaToya Hobbs' Powerful Mixed-Media Art on Show in Nashville Home / Art Powerful Mixed-Media Carvings Speak to the Experiences of Black Womanhood By Jessica Stewart on December 12, 2023 LaToya Hobbs...
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about 13 months ago (12/06/2023)
Art Basel Arrives in Miami with a New Structure and Hints about Future – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Daniel Cassady Plus Icon Daniel Cassady Senior Writer, ARTnews View All December 6, 2023 9:29am MIAMI, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 30: An exterior view of Miami Beach Convention Center during Art Basel Miami Beach on November 30, 2021 in Miami, Florida...
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about 13 months ago (12/04/2023)
Houston, Texas “Artists play a pivotal role in shaping societal narratives...
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about 13 months ago (12/02/2023)
Stan Squirewell's Mixed-Media Collages Give a Fresh Perspective on the Past Home / Art Vibrant Mixed-Media Collages Give a Fresh Perspective on African American Ancestry By Jessica Stewart on December 2, 2023 “Mrs...
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about 14 months ago (11/24/2023)
People in Mong Kok, where a Hong Kong developer is building an office tower, work with artist to come up with ideas for, and to paint, a mural on hoardings around the construction site....
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about 15 months ago (09/28/2023)
Press Release: Art21 Welcomes Dynamic New Board Members from Art, Film, Media, Non-Profit Leadership and Law | Art21 Our Series Art in the Twenty-First Century Extended Play New York Close Up Artist to Artist William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Specials Art21.live An always-on video channel featuring programming hand selected by Art21 Playlists Curated by Art21 staff, with guest contributions from artists, educators, and more Art21 Library Explore over 700 videos from Art21's television and digital series Latest Video 7:29 Add to watchlist Interrupting the Broadcast Paul Pfeiffer Extended Play October 4, 2023 Search Searching Art21… Welcome to your watchlist Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Artnet NFT's Jiayin Chen spoke to the billionaire entrepreneur about his engagement with the art world, and his thoughts on the future....
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The 'Invasion' and 'X-Men' series writer-producer and the 'Heart Talk' author share how their love of art even played into their engagement party....
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Art Dubai is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, as part of the fair’s committed remit of engagement with diverse cultural and philanthropic practices across the Global South...
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Private art collections are notoriously secretive...
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about 41 months ago (08/12/2021)
Dialogues with Mountains: Preserving indigenous culture in Taromak and Kelecung | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Kelecung, Bali...
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about 43 months ago (06/09/2021)
Expand, Exchange, and Beyond: A reflection of the Asian Arts Media Roundtable 2021 at SIFA | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 9, 2021 By Gladhys Elliona It was a laid-back day at the end of April, when I got the email from ArtsEquator informing me that I had gotten into the Asian Arts Media Roundtable (AAMR) at the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021...
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about 44 months ago (05/12/2021)
A public platform awaits you with 'Red Stage' by Rashid Johnson - Creative Time A public platform awaits you with ‘Red Stage’ by Rashid Johnson May 12th, 2021 Tweet Email Creative Time is pleased to present artist Rashid Johnson’s Red Stage , a participatory steel sculpture that celebrates the vibrancy and creativity found in New York’s public spaces as the city awakens from the COVID-19 pandemic...
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about 47 months ago (03/05/2021)
Mapping Asian Arts Media: Key Findings (Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 5, 2021 By Kathy Rowland What is the state of the arts media landscape in Southeast Asia? Based on global trends, the answer seemed evident: the landscape has shrunk, and its impact on the arts ecosystem is a growing concern amongst arts writers, artists and policy makers...
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about 47 months ago (02/24/2021)
Open Calls and Opportunities: Feb 2021 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints February 24, 2021 ArtsEquator Lobang is a list of available open calls, job postings and other opportunities open to people from Singapore and Southeast Asia...
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about 48 months ago (01/20/2021)
Statistically Speaking: Analysing Arts Audience Engagement in Singapore and Australia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 20, 2021 Representatives from Singapore’s National Arts Council (NAC) and the Australia Council for the Arts will discuss audience attitudes towards the arts in their respective countries, based on research survey data collected in 2019 and 2020...
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The illustrations and personal work of artist Jay Torres have a dark surrealist edge...
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about 68 months ago (06/12/2019)
Asian Arts Media Roundtable 2019: When Asian Critics Meet | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of Asian Arts Media Roundtable June 12, 2019 By Akanksha Raja and Ke Weiliang (1,444 words, 6-minute read) The inaugural Asian Arts Media Roundtable (AAMR) took place between 24 to 25 May 2019 at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore...
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Open Calls and Opportunities: May 2019 (Singapore) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles May 13, 2019 National Youth Film Awards: Call for Entry (Deadline extended) Set up to promote and celebrate youth filmmakers, the National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) is a national award that seeks to instill a greater appreciation of film, fuel the passion for filmmaking, and generate opportunities to further develop and exhibit youth talents who are highly adept in their respective fields across the various aspects of filmmaking in Singapore...
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about 70 months ago (04/17/2019)
Open Calls and Opportunities: April 2019 (Singapore) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 17, 2019 Auditions for The Second Breakfast Company’s The Hawker We are casting for our upcoming production this coming November! Interested participants can email us your CV and headshot by 26 April...
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Open Calls and Opportunities: December 2018 (Singapore) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar December 3, 2018 Senior Marketing Executive / Marketing Executive at Intercultural Theatre Institute Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) is looking for a creative and driven Marketing professional to join our small but dynamic team...
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about 78 months ago (08/01/2018)
Mass inclusion: thoughts on Teo Yeo Yenn’s ‘This is what Inequality looks like’ (via Dumbriyani) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar August 1, 2018 In recent days, I have been absorbed heavily into a book my wife brought home from Kinokuniya...
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1970-1979
Jeffrey Vallance
1978Vallance’s Rocket is a vibrant picture in which masses of color and collage coalesce into a central vehicle, yet the whole surface seems lit with the roar of space travel...
Larry Bell
Drawing & Print
1979(Drawing & Print) Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
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1980-1989
Martin Kippenberger
Drawing & Print
1989(Drawing & Print) 7″ Single ‘Pop In’ by Martin Kippenbergher consisting of a vinyl record and a unique artwork drawn by the artist on the record’s sleeve...
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1990-1999
General Idea
1993AIDS Ring by General Idea is a cast metal ring, which takes as its basis Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE” design, appropriating its pop aesthetic, and totalizing, simplistic universal messaging to instead emphasize the severity of the AIDS epidemic that occurred in the 1970s...
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2000-2009
Alexandre da Cunha
2005Glaze (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...
Laurent Montaron
2006This film refers directly and fictionally to one of the first media dramas: the burning of the Zeppelin aircraft LZ 129 Hindenburg as it landed in New York in 1937...
Laetitia Sonami
2006Although at first the work Sounds of War presents itself with a degree of playfulness and humour, a close inspection reveals its painful undertone...
Ahmad Fuad Osman
2007Recollections of Long Lost Memories by Ahmad Fuad Osman is a series of 71 black and white sepia-toned archival photographs that chart, with nostalgia, the social encounters between hierarchies of life in the Malay world...
Trisha Donnelly
2007Untitled is a black-and-white photograph of a wave just before it breaks as seen from the distance of an overlook...
Tony Labat
2008Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and riffing on the “I Want You” army recruitment campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s, Labat asked Bay Area residents to interpret the slogan and make their own demands of the public in a series of live performance auditions...
Zhang Peili
2008In the video installation A Gust of Wind , Zhang continues to explore notions of perspective and melds them seamlessly with a veiled but incisive social critique...
Bruce Conner
2008Unlike many of his earlier films which often present poignant critiques of mass media and its deleterious effects on American culture, EASTER MORNING , Conner’s final video work before his death in 2008, constitutes a far more meditative filmic essay in which a limited amount of images turn into compelling, almost hypnotic visual experience...
Mohamed Bourouissa
2008Temps Mort is the result of one year of mobile phone exchanges of still images and videos between the artist and a person incarcerated in prison...
Gao Mingyan
2008The television monitors utilized in the video installation Come On (2008) ostensibly serve as playback devices for a multi-channel installation of clips from blockbuster films as part of a larger commentary of mass entertainment and its relation to consumer cultures...
Elisheva Biernoff
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) Last Postcards is a series of three small double-sided paintings on plywood in which Biernoff imagines the last communications from explorers lost in the wilderness...
Mohamed Bourouissa
2009The film called Temps Mort (Dead Time or Time Out) presents an exchange of short video footage assembled into one final edit...
Miguel Calderon
2009Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent filmmaking, and Mexican artist Miguel Calderón...
Thomas Kilpper
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) These two images come from the series called “State of Control” which Kilpper made in the building formerly occupied by the Stasi in Berlin...
Thomas Kilpper
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) These two images come from the series called “State of Control” which Kilpper made in the building formerly occupied by the Stasi in Berlin...
Elisheva Biernoff
2009In her recent work, Biernoff is interested in investigating fictions and fantasies embedded in the remnants of consumer culture (for example magazines) or through ephemera such as postcards and old photographs...
Shilpa Gupta
2009In Untitled (Sword) , addressing histories of colonialism with abstraction, a large steel blade extends from the gallery wall...
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2010-2019
Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
2010Photojournalist with Two Cameras restages a portrait of a photojournalist from the background of an old photograph of protest published in South China Morning Post on January 10, 2010 under the headline “Return of the Radicals: Recent angry protests are nothing new.” The photojournalist in the photograph, probably from a protest of earlier decades, was capturing the scene of a protester’s arrest while wearing two cameras...
Stephen G. Rhodes
2010For his series of digital collages Excerpt (Sealed)… Rhodes appropriated multiple images from mass media and then sprayed an X on top of their glass and frame...
Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
2010Office Lady with a Red Umbrella restages a figure from a 1980 postcard made from a photograph from 1950’s...
The Propeller Group and Superflex
2010Fade In (the whole title of the film is actually the entire five page script) is a collaboration with the Danish artist collective Superflex (group of freelance artist–designer–activists committed to social and economic change, founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen)...
Takeshi Murata
2010If one had been guessing at Takeshi Murata’s criticism of American consumerist culture up until watching Infinite Doors , it would be solidified after hearing the announcer from The Price is Right squawk prizes one after the next...
Allora & Calzadilla
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) Intermission (Halloween Iraq IV) is a large print that depicts U...
Anthony Discenza
2012In Anthony Discenza’s 23-minute audio loop that makes up A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats , a nondescript male voice narrates a series of unlikely pairings: “think Dune meets South Pacific;” “think dubstep meets the Magna Carta;” “think the Food Network meets Igmar Bergman.” Given without inflection or emotion, this recitation uses the structure of a Hollywood elevator pitch to sketch out an unknown project, idea, or structure, conflating and collapsing cultural referents into an implausible mass of contradictions....
Köken Ergun
2012The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on 10 Muharram, 61 AH (October 10 th , 680) in Karbala, situated in present day Iraq, when Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, was killed...
Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker
2012In Tapitapultas (2012), Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker comment on mass consumerism and pollution by way of a game they invented...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Thomas’ lenticular text-based works require viewers to shift positions as they view them in order to fully absorb their content...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Intentionally Left Blanc alludes to the technical process of its own (non)production; a procedure known as retro-reflective screen printing in which the image is only fully brought to life through its exposure to flash lighting...
Hank Willis Thomas
2012Like 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...
Hank Willis Thomas
2012Bread and Roses takes its name from a phrase famously used on picket signs and immortalized by the poet James Oppenheim in 1911...
Tadasu Takamine
2012The video work Japan Syndrome is a continuation of his lines of inquiry, taking post-Fukushima Japan as a case study...
Yu Honglei
2013Yu Honglei’s video and mixed media works riff on familiar motifs from the Western art historical canon and reimagine them through a playful but subversive culture jamming of their original meaning...
Mohamed Bourouissa
2013After seeing Martha Camarillo’s photographs of horsemen in Strawberry Mansion -an impoverished Philadelphia neighbourhood- Mohamed Bourouissa travelled to see the urban stables run by African American men...
Takeshi Murata
2013Takeshi Murata developed an interest in space inspired by his architect parents...
Hank Willis Thomas
2013The image is borrowed from protests during Civil Rights where African Americans in the south would carry signs with the same message to assert their rights against segregation and racism...
Regina José Galindo
2013In 2012, former Guatemalan President José Efran Ros Montt was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity; Regina José Galindo’s video Tierra is a chilling reimagining of the atrocities recounted during his trial...
James Collins
2013These two large format untitled paintings by James Collins feature the artist’s hallmark technique, which transforms abstraction into an optical illusion that creates dimension, space, and mass...
Hank Willis Thomas
2014South 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....
Nicolás Grum
2014El gran pacto de Chile (The Great Pact) and La balserita de Puerto Gala (The Raft) were part of the “Museo Futuro”, an exhibition in which the artist presented nine miniature dioramas staging fragments of Chile’s history, from its colonial invasions to the present...
Nicolás Grum
2014El gran pacto de Chile (The Great Pact) and La balserita de Puerto Gala (The Raft) were part of the “Museo Futuro”, an exhibition in which the artist presented nine miniature dioramas staging fragments of Chile’s history, from its colonial invasions to the present...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title...
Liu Chuang
2014Categorized as low-level literature, a “Love Stories” book is a romantic popular fiction of proletariat China, read mainly by teenagers, students, and young workers...
Zai Kuning
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Converting is a piece about the Orang Laut, often called Sea Nomads, that inhabited the Riau archipelago...
Shilpa Gupta
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory...
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano
2015There is no there by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano is a black and white looped video with sound, in conjunction with a live performance...
A.K. Burns
2016In a 2002 Pentagon press conference, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a question about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction with an unforgettable evasion: there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, the latter being the most precarious...
Marlon de Azambuja
2017Following a series of related works, Brutalismo Americano by Marlon de Azambuja is a site-specific sculptural installation produced during the artist’s residency at Kadist, San Francisco in 2017...
Mohamed Bourouissa
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) In his photographic series Périphérique (2005–2008), Mohamed Bourouissa used the composition of classical paintings to stage the portrait of friends and young people in the banlieue s (suburbs)...
Daniel Boyd
2017Daniel Boyd’s work WTEIA3 is part of a series of paintings that reference the stick charts used by indigenous communities on the Marshall Islands...
Mohamed Bourouissa
2018Dave is part of Mohamed Bourouissa’s project Horse Day , which stemmed from a residency the artist conducted in Philadelphia in 2014...
Awol Erizku
2018Awol Erizku’s image Origin of Afro-Esotericism has compositional force and a rhythmic use of full-blast color...
Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet
2018DADYAA: The Woodpeckers of Rotha by Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet illuminates a unique and seldom seen international perspective on indigenous cultures and contemporary social issues in the Nepali context...
Mercedes Dorame
2018Mercedes Dorame utilizes photography to investigate, recode, and connect with her Gabrielino-Tongva tribe culture, as well as to bring current Indigenous experiences to light...
American Artist
2019From suicides, to gang violence, to the epidemic abuse of force by police departments (predominantly against Black men), to school and mass shootings, there is perhaps no more urgent issue in the United States than gun control...
Emmanuel van der Auwera
2019Emmanuel van der Auwera visited Miami at the end of 2017 and was working on a project relating to school shootings...
Tenzing Rigdol
2019Unhealed by Tenzing Rigdol is a photograph of the artist’s back tattooed with a map of Tibet with the dates of important political events...
Elena Tejada-Herrera
2019Las Bambas by Elena Tejada-Herrera takes the name of a copper mine in the Andean department of Apurímac, Peru...
Sabelo Mlangeni
2019The Royal House of Allure is a name of a safe house on mainland Lagos where members of the queer community in need of boarding, due to various circumstances, live together...
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2020-2029
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Paloma Contreras Lomas sometimes incorporates large scale drawing into her practice...
David Horvitz
2021On March 30, 2015, at 5:52am, David Horvitz caught his daughter, Ela Melanie, as she was being born, in the back of an Uber driving through Midtown Manhattan...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Nguyen Trinh Thi
2021The essay film How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi takes us into an indigenous village of the Jrai people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, in Gia Lai province...
Tony Cokes
2022Tony Cokes’s long-form, multi-channel work Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 forms a layered montage of historical and contemporary source material exploring different periods of Munich’s history...
