Richter never saw the show. A few days before it came down, Wagstaff stood alone with “Birkenau”: paintings about the possibility of perceiving history that, now, no one could perceive at all. “It was a kind of haunting experience,” she said. “They became almost anthropomorphic. They’re sitting there on the walls, and there’s nothing, there’s no one to witness them. The paintings are witnessing something, and that witnessing cannot be conveyed any further.”
Read MoreThe digital gathering on May 14, 2021 presents a roundtable with protagonists who are leaders in their field: art historian and curator, Patrick Flores, anthropologist, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and artists, Shilpa Gupta, Ho Tzu Nyen and Lantian Xie, followed by a working group for deeper dialogical engagement with raised propositions.
Read MoreAs a joint presentation between Vadehra Art Gallery and Chemould Prescott Road, artist Shilpa Gupta has created an intervention with recently developed works, which delve into distance, mobility and confinement that surfaced through the last year. “Shilpa Gupta’s 6,10.3,2 evokes an understanding of experiential distance and presence while focusing on how qualitative interruptions and subjective internality interact with the otherwise external and durational nature of time; ‘6’ refers to the minimum social distance to be maintained in feet, ‘10.3’ refers to the same distance as measured by Gupta’s palm, and ‘2’ is its conversion into metres,” states the gallery note.
Read MoreJohn Lennon‘s debut solo studio album ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ is set to be reissued next month for a new ‘Ultimate Collection’ box set. Originally released in December 1970, ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ was recorded shortly after the demise of The Beatles. The record, which was co-produced by Phil Spector and once described by Lennon as “the best thing I’ve ever done”, featured Ringo Starr on drums and Klaus Voormann on bass and included the songs ‘Working Class Hero’, ‘Isolation’ and ‘God’.
Read MoreMost tragically (There has been so much “tragically” in the last twelve months, hasn’t there?), the works were part of what was to be a landmark exhibition at The Met titled Gerhard Richter: Painting After All. It opened March 4, 2020, and closed eight days later. But the Gagosian gallery in Beverly Hills is now showing six of the Cage Paintings, and have thrillingly added a new series of drawings he created during the summer of Covid.
Read MoreComprised of more than 100 photographs and a two-channel video installation, Land of Dreams is the New York premiere of Shirin Neshat’s latest body of work. The show marks a monumental conceptual and visual shift for the artist, whose repertoire has often looked back at her native Iran. Here, her explorations and camera are fixed on her adoptive home in the United States.
Read MoreHer first major retrospective and largest exhibit to date, “Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again,” is on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from February 28 through May 16.
Arranged chronologically, the show highlights Neshat’s three-decade career with eight immersive video installations and 230 photographs. The exhibit takes its name from a poem from Forugh Farrokhzad, a feminist poet who was controversial in Iran. Neshat’s works explore death, isolation, revolution, and separation by both nation and gender.
Read MoreThe first activation is SOUTH SOUTH VEZA, an online event co-conceived by galleries to promote and support art from the Global South. At Chemould Prescott Road, the show titled 'Holding Space (for the global south)' is a curated exhibition of 6 artists—Shilpa Gupta, Reena Kallat, Jitish Kallat, Desmond Lazaro, Lavanya Mani and Mithu Sen. The works comprise drawings, sculpture, textile and mixed media installations that seek to balance the very delicate tension of multiple vantage points of identity, memory and territory whilst steadfastly holding crucial space for the South in a global narrative building.
Read MoreNow, more than ever, is the time for public art. In Coral Gables, Florida, one city-wide project is showcasing the works of 15 artists and runs until March 13. It's called Illuminate Coral Gables and is south Florida's first public art and light installation. Among the works on view, Kiki Smith’s piece Blue Night depicts 42 constellation animals, suspended from above. From goats to scorpions and fish, each piece is created on a transparent blue background, with holographic vinyl, and Smith was inspired by the constellation drawings from the late 17th century by Johannes Hevelius, among others.
Read MoreThe peace activist who was once married to the Beatles’ frontman John Lennon has made profound contributions to visual art and experimental music in the last decades.
Read MoreIn my artworks I approach beauty as a way to escape the mundane. Beauty isn't just the physicality of my characters, but their raw emotions, dignity and humanity.
Read MoreIt might not be considered a noble material, but Chiharu Shiota has made yarn her signature medium in the creation of powerful, delicate and enveloping environments in which recovered objects like suitcases, shoes, dresses, bed frames, windows and doors are sometimes suspended in a web.
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