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Open Casket IX is an installation by Indira Allegra that combines traditional materials of memorial—tombstones, mausoleums, and caskets—with contemporary expressions of grief...

Barbara Kasten’s Studio Construct 51 depicts an abstract still life: a greyscale photograph of clear translucent panes assembled into geometric forms, the hard lines of their edges converging and bisecting at various points...

From among a cloud of fake smoke we see a heavily pregnant Cohen wearing a bikini and golden stilettos with lace-up straps wrapped around her legs, grasping onto the frame of a modified car as its loud hydraulic system clumsily moves it up and down...

The photographic work Lowrider Builder and Child is a companion piece to the video Hydroforce , which features Cohen in the late stage of her pregnancy posing atop a German car that she transformed into a lowrider in a period of ten years...

At first glance, Cityscapes (2010) seems to be a collection of panoramic photographs of the city of Istanbul—the kind that are found on postcards in souvenir shops...

Untitled (rolled up) , is an abstract portrait of Owen Monk, the artist’s father and features an aluminum ring of 56.6 cm in diameter measuring 1.77 cm in circumference, the size of his father...

Houck’s Peg and John was made as part of a series of photographic works that capture objects from the artist’s childhood...

At first glance, Cityscapes (2010) seems to be a collection of panoramic photographs of the city of Istanbul—the kind that are found on postcards in souvenir shops...

The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon...

Meeting #100 is one in a series of text works by Jonathan Monk...

Final works and a Pokemon mashup: New van Gogh exhibitions - arts24 Skip to main content Final works and a Pokemon mashup: New van Gogh exhibitions Issued on: 06/10/2023 - 16:58 11:53 arts24 © FRANCE 24 screengrab By: Marion CHAVAL | Aline BOTTIN | Magali FAURE | Alison SARGENT In this roundup of cultural news, we kick off with the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature: Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse...

Learn How to Draw Realistic Portraits in This Online Class Home / Classes / Academy Discover the Secrets of Drawing Realistic Portraits (Now on Pre-Sale!) By Jessica Stewart on December 5, 2023 Have you ever seen a realistic portrait and wished that you knew how to create something similar? Thanks to My Modern Met Academy's new course, Realistic Portrait Drawing Made Easy , you'll discover all the tips, tricks, and techniques to produce a portrait that looks incredibly real...

Damsel Elysium Wonders, "If a Tree's Voice was Something We Could Understand, What Would it Say?" - Something Curated Copy Features Interviews Profiles Guides Jobs Interviews - 26 Jan 2024 - Share London based multi-instrumentalist, composer, experimental sound and visual artist, Damsel Elysium utilises double bass, violin, piano and original field recordings to explore intangible connections between humans and the natural world...

November 7, 2013, at 7 p.m Luis Pérez-Oramas was born in 1960 in Caracas, Venezuela, and currently lives in New York...

Memory Mistake of the Eldridge Cleaver Pants was created for the show Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life Part 1 , held at California College of the Arts’s Wattis Institute in 2008 and curated by McCarthy himself...

Untitled (Wheelchair Drawing) is a ten-foot photo transfer of the image of a wheelchair with burning embers in its seat...

Walking Through is one of a series of videos—sometimes humorous, often absurd—that record the artist’s performative interactions with objects in a particular site...

White Minority , is typical of Capistran’s sampling of high art genres and living subcultures in which the artist subsumes an object’s high art pedigree within a vernacular art form...

Um Al Dhabaab (Mother of Fog) by Farah Al Qasimi addresses the myth of Al Qasimi tribe-instigated piracy in the Gulf, perpetuated by the British Empire and upheld by contemporary western academia...

Premiered at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present opening in February 2023, Farah Al Qasimi’s new film was co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation and KADIST...

The Immense Charm of Miniatures Skip to content Possibly by Streeter & Co., bicycle brooch (mid-1890s), gold, enamel, diamond, and ruby, 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 x 3/8 inches (all photos Julie Smith Schneider/Hyperallergic) BOSTON — From ancient Egypt to the modern day, miniatures have charmed humans for millennia...

The Paris Opera Ballet performs Crystal Pite’s "The Seasons’ Canon": Esplanade’s da:ns series 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Julien Benhamou May 20, 2019 By Elizabeth Chan (750 words, four-minute read) The prestigious Paris Opera Ballet arrives on local shores this June as part of Esplanade’s da:ns series, bringing with them a trio of wide ranging works...