This untitled painting by Tirdad Hasemi presents a space that can be thought of as both a prison cell and a house. Paradoxically, in both cases the color and the importance of the walls give a feeling of confinement. Escaping from prison in Iran and finding the walls of a home in Europe has been a complex and conflicting experience for Hashemi.
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The Blue Poisoning series , reveals the outcome of artist Tirdad Hashemi’s weary and depressed days in the winter of 2022, following their second migration from Paris to Berlin. The color blue expresses the feelings of sadness and loneliness felt by the artist in the frozen Berlin cold. In the drawing, lonely and tormented bodies seem to struggle to live; despite their suffering, they still hope.
Leaving Iran in 2017, Tirdad Hashemi now cultivates perpetual movement, between their hometown of Tehran, Istanbul, Paris, and Berlin...
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Box Trucks – Some of the Best Graffiti On Wheels | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Jaime Rojo has built an impressive collection of photographs of these, capturing the essence of New York’s streets through his lens with an array of box trucks that weave and jolt their way through traffic, often seen opening their gates to load and unload amidst the noise of city life...
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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.12.23 | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! A Chagall painting is stolen from a midtown gallery , Fab Five Freddy is in Vanity Fair , Carlo McCormick opened his curated “Wild Style” show at Deitch , t he Christmas tree is going up in Rockefeller Center , the mayor’s phones have been seized in a mystery investigation , students are walking out of class and people are hitting the streets at Columbus Circle, Grand Central, and the Brooklyn Bridge to demand a ceasefire in Israel/Gaza ...
BSA Images Of The Week: 11.05.23 | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Nobody was out Friday night when we went to see “Stop Making Sense” on the screen; the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn at 10 pm were rather lightly attended, possibly because everyone was recovering from a mid-week Halloween/Day of the Dead blast of drunkenness, revelry, laughter, and tears...
BSA Images Of The Week: 10.29.23 | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! New York is gripped with anxiety and demonstrations because of the Israeli attacks on Gaza that appear to violate International Law...
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Tour interior decorator Barbara Lane’s Manhattan-set apartment, which features works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and more...
“If I have to be discarded, let it be in the beautiful green space of this painting.”...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nanyin | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Joy Ho / Jawn October 30, 2020 10 Things is a series of three short animated videos, each focusing on a lesser known traditional artform – Dikir Barat, Kavadi Attam and Nanyin...