Since 5:45am Pacific time, at sunrise in Los Angeles, museums around the world have been streaming videos of the sky on Zoom. In collaboration with Ono, the Getty Research Institute and the Feminist Center for Creative Work invited around 50 museums to project 24-hour videos for “TV to See the Sky,” an event marking the summer solstice and the first full moon of the season, known as the strawberry moon.
Read MoreFrom 9th September to 12th December 2021, Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space will present the most extensive exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s drawings ever shown in the UK. Over the course of a career that has spanned six decades, Richter has been widely acknowledged as one of the most influential contemporary artists in the world.
Read MoreNeshat will exhibit her series Land of Dreams (2019), which comprises 111 photographs and a two-channel film installation about the residents of New Mexico. Land of Dreams premiered at the Broad museum in Los Angeles and has since shown at Gladstone Gallery and Goodman Gallery.
Read MoreRichter’s solo show consists of four square paintings of kaleidoscopic colors arranged in grids. In fact, they are one work titled “4900 Colours.” The piece consists of 196 square panels, each of which consists of 25 squares of different colors, configured into four paintings. The artist conceived “4900 Colours” to be configured in a number of versions, from one gigantic-scale piece to multiple, smaller pieces. The configuration in Espace Louis Vuitton Seoul is Version IX.
Read MorePortals is NEON's magnum opus, and the exhibition will occupy 6,500 sq.m and involves 59 artists from 27 countries, including Do Ho Suh, Cornelia Parker and Shilpa Gupta. 15 of these works have been commissioned by NEON for the Public Tobacco Factory.
Read MoreJapanese artist Chiharu Shiota is best known for art that consumes its viewers. These entanglements, blood-red, black or white threads often ensnare personal objects – from clothes, keys, boats, suitcases, to the artist herself. Shiota’s large-scale installation art often appears as though humans can weave webs, but at Galerie Templon, Brussels, the artist has downsized to spider-scale for a new diorama.
Read MoreWhether it is the talking microphones, the ‘Blame’ bottle, or the bag with a label that reads, ‘There is no explosive in this’, Shilpa Gupta’s artworks always speak to their viewer about situations that are socio-politically loaded. But only to the point where one engages with the work and ‘interprets’ it, even subjectively.
Read MoreThe show opens with a piece Kostina calls the “perfect” introduction to the exhibition: Ilya and Emilia Kabakovs’ 2019 painting “Excursion,” in which the audiences see themselves — a group of people at an exhibition. The work is surrounded by a mirror, bringing together the image and viewers looking at the image. Divided into two large parts, Around and Inside, the exhibition is further divided into smaller sections, such as Fears, Anxieties, Illusions, Triggers and Hopes.
Read MoreThe short documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko, is available to stream on the Coda Collection on Amazon Prime Video.
Read MoreBorn in Iran, Neshat came to the United States in the 1970s to pursue an education free from increasing political volatility in her homeland. After the Shah of Iran was overthrown the country’s post-revolutionary climate of unrest prevented Neshat from returning. She acquired an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, moved to New York, and began making images during the early 1990s. Since then she’s won prestigious awards and become internationally recognized, although she has only returned to Iran a couple of times and has been an American citizen since 1983.
Read MoreIf you’re feeling helpless and overwhelmed by too much reality at the moment, consider a brief reprieve in art. Frieze New York’s latest edition, whose online viewing rooms are live until 14 May, features some of the best names in contemporary art from across the world—including a glittering array of artists from south Asia. The latter—Shilpa Gupta, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Gulammohammed Sheikh, among others—have created intensely cerebral, yet aesthetically engaging, work over the decades. Their art, represented by some of the best galleries in India, not only act as windows into the world we have inherited, but also as portals into the recesses of our collective consciousness.
Read MoreYoko Ono’s legacy is split in two. There is the reductive, racist, and sexist mythology that she broke up the Beatles, acting like a Lady Macbeth of rock music, sowing seeds of discontent that led to the implosion of the greatest rock band of the 20th century. As an addendum to this narrative is Ono the dilettante, the talentless, rich rock widow who used her connections and nepotism to buy herself a career as a musician.
The other story of Yoko Ono is far more interesting.
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