The best exhibitions and openings of 2024: North America - ArteFuse It’s an exciting year for art lovers — from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s world-class collection of contemporary art to the world’s first exhibition exploring Matisse and the sea — there’s something for everyone Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction Dallas Museum of Art Through 28 January 2024 Praised as one of the leading artists of his generation, Abraham Ángel produced just 24 paintings — four of which remain lost — before his tragic death at 19 years old, but those works established him as a legendary figure in the canon of modern Mexican art...
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8 Overlooked Women Old Masters Who Were Ahead of Their Time | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art 8 Overlooked Women Old Masters Who Were Ahead of Their Time Annabel Keenan Dec 13, 2023 5:29PM Installation view of “Ahead of her Time: Pioneering Woman from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century” at Robilant + Voena, 2023...
That Time Manet Dueled One of His Critics Skip to content Henri Fantin-Latour depicted both Manet (standing third from right) and Duranty (seated first on left) in his 1864 paiting "Hommage à Delacroix." (image via Wikimedia Commons ) On the morning of February 23, 1870, painter Edouard Manet and art critic Edmond Duranty traveled to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye forest on the outskirts of Paris...
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Image Cities - Photographs by Anastasia Samoylova | Interview by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture Feature Image Cities Traversing 17 of the world’s most influential cities, Anastasia Samoylova’s latest body of work is a multi-layered exploration of the photographs that invade and occupy public space—and the many ways they infiltrate and shape our lives and desires...
L’œil vérité — Le musée au second degré — MAC VAL Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne — Exposition — Slash Paris Connexion Newsletter Twitter Facebook L’œil vérité — Le musée au second degré — MAC VAL Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne — Exposition — Slash Paris Français English Accueil Événements Artistes Lieux Magazine Vidéos Retour L’œil vérité — Le musée au second degré Exposition Techniques mixtes À venir Roman Cieslewicz, M...
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Building Practice: Arts Spaces in Malaysia | ArtsEquator Skip to content The arts ecosystems in many parts of Southeast Asia are under-resourced...
"Covid Time Capsule": Memories and Regret and Echoes from the Stars | ArtsEquator Skip to content Artists from the region created a virtual time capsule to capture the objects and memories of the past two years...
Echoes from the Stars: A Collective Map of Love, Memories and Regret | ArtsEquator Skip to content Jean Baptise Phou’s work My Mother’s Tongue began as a way for the artist to examine his relationship with his Teochew-speaking mother...
The Fontevraud Modern Art Museum, housed in a 12th-century monastery’s former stables, will preserve more than 800 works donated by collectors Martine and Léon Cligman...
Hurt Need Undo Live: A Mantra of Possibilities | ArtsEquator Skip to content In his latest exhibition, Jerome Kugan embraces his amorphous self and allows themes of religion, sexuality and nudity to intertwine ever so delicately...
Parastoo Theatre: Art, Refuge, Action | ArtsEquator Skip to content The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas, is creating a practice that enriches the cultural landscape for all Malaysians...
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Burning Questions: Can Critics Criticise during a Pandemic? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 5, 2020 As the work of artists evolve with the restrictions of COVID-19, do critics also need to reassess how they look at performance? Four critics, Loo Zihan, Teo Xiao Ting, Jocelyn Chng and Germaine Cheng discuss their responses as more and more performances go online, and whether it has led to a recalibration or softening of their critical eye....
ArtsEquator's Burning Questions | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 25, 2020 In a matter of just months, the making, distribution and audiences’ experience of arts has undergone rapid changes...
Between Worlds: Café Sarajevo, ATARA and No Place | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Crispian Chan February 17, 2020 By Nabilah Said and Germaine Cheng (1,580 words, 7-minute read) What does it mean to be between worlds? To behold yet not belong? Three works – Café Sarajevo , ATARA and No Place – presented as part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020 ask these questions, of their audience and of themselves....
Podcast 71: ArtsEquator End-of-Year Dance Podcast 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles December 24, 2019 Soultari Amin Farid, Chan Sze-Wei and Germaine Cheng discuss their top picks for dance in 2019, and discuss trends they’ve observed in the scene this year...
Podcast 65: M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival (Part 1) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Crispian Chan September 12, 2019 Duration: 20 min Podcast host Chan Sze-Wei and guest Melissa Quek discuss works they saw at the recent M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival, specifically at the platforms DiverCity, Off Stage and M1 Open Stage...
The Body Remembers: Kitt Johnson on "Stigma" at M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles "Stigma", photo by James Quah (left), Kitt Johnson, photo by Per Morten Abrahamsen (right) April 29, 2019 By Germaine Cheng (605 words, three-minute read) 2019 marks the 10th edition of the M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival , a humble endeavour by Kuik Swee Boon, artistic director of T...
Weekly Picks: Malaysia (31 Dec 2018–6 Jan 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do December 31, 2018 Malam Sayu Berpuisi: #NewYearNewMe , at klpac, 31 Dec, 8:30pm A night of poetry beneath the banyan tree...