This piece of William Kentridge, “The Refusal of Time,” is one of 130 featured works of South African-born artist William Kentridge on display in a new Broad retrospective, “In Praise of Shadows.” Meant to encapsulate Kentridge’s career, the exhibition runs through April 2023 and includes the 13 pieces by the artist already in the museum’s collection.
Read MoreArtist Shilpa Gupta’s haunting, affective and compelling multi-channel sound installation, For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, gives voice to 100 dissident poets ––Malay Roychoudhury, Ashraf Fayadh, Huang Xiang, Osip Mandelstam, Mahmoud Darwish, Martin Carter, Faiz Ahmad Faiz among others–– from across the globe silenced by the State. As Gupta says in an interview included in the book, the artwork is titled after a poem written by the Azerbaijani poet Ali Imaduddin Nasimi (1369-1417), better known by his pen name Nasimi.
Read MoreIn early December, over 300 volunteers crowded onto the lawn of New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, designed by Louis Kahn. The crowd gathered to form a waving embodiment of the free-flowing hair of Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old girl found dead after joining a protest in Tehran in September over the death, in police custody, of Mahsa Amini. As part of the ongoing Eyes on Iran demonstrations, French street artist JR invited the volunteers to move their arms behind his large-scale portrait of Nika, installed near a version of Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s Offered Eyes, whose penetrating gaze animated the park’s steps across the East River from the United Nations headquarters.
Read MoreThe German painter Gerhard Richter, one of the most celebrated—and expensive—living artists, is now represented exclusively by David Zwirner, the New York-headquartered gallery revealed 7 December. He will have his first solo show with the gallery, at one of its Manhattan spaces, in March 2023.
Read MoreThe Book brings together many of the poets featured in the installation—every one of them persecuted for their words. Edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi, conceived in dialogue with artist Shilpa Gupta’s multimedia installation, For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: Encounters with Prison (Westland Books, 2022) brings together many of the poets featured in the installation—every one of them persecuted for their words. It is an immersive experience, featuring illustrations and images alongside the written pieces. It is also the culmination of an effort of collaboration and support, often under extremely difficult conditions, forming a network that spans countries.
Read MoreShirin Neshat’s artwork – which encompasses film, installation, performance and photography – broadly addresses the role of women in Iranian culture. Born in Iran in 1957, the artist, who has lived in New York since 1975, cannot return to her homeland for fear of retribution from the oppressive autocratic regime. Assistant editor Sean Burns spoke to Neshat about the current uprisings in Iran, triggered by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September, and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents.
Read MoreHis nose has starred in a musical theater production based on a short story by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, staged at the Metropolitan Opera. Like many elements in Kentridge’s art, the nose — well-designed, idiosyncratic, functional — becomes warmly symbolic of larger, polarizing historical and political forces through a whirlwind process of drawing, animating, scoring, filming, and staging. See for Yourself, a major exhibition pulled from the private collection of a Milwaukee-based couple, Jan Serr and John Shannon, brought Kentridge and his entourage of actors and musicians to town recently.
Read MoreThe collaborative installation was brought together by Iranian artist Mahvash Mostala, Hank Willis Thomas, Wide Awakes and French artist JR. One week ago, a group of Iranian artists teamed up with Woman Life Freedom, Hank Willis Thomas‘s nonprofit For Freedoms and JR to raise awareness to the humanitarian crisis that has persisted in Iran for the past three months.
Read MoreA new art installation centered around the ongoing protests in Iran has opened at FDR Four Freedoms Park on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. Artists, activists and political figures spoke out about human rights abuses and women’s rights at the installation’s grand opening last week. “When we say that we must keep our eyes on Iran, we mean that what is happening deserves not only our attention but our vision,” said photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat at the opening. The featured artists, she added, are working “in solidarity with the courageous Iranians who are risking their lives to express their human rights.”
Read MoreDie Brutalität wie Absurdität normativer Ordnungen tritt im Werk von Rosemarie Trockel offen hervor. Definitionen, Einschränkungen, Bevormundung und Gewalt aufgrund von Gender werden sichtbar und durchschaubar.
Read MoreDu 26 novembre au 30 avril 2023, le Musée Macan à Jakarta présente une rétrospective de l’artiste plasticienne japonaise Chiharu Shiota sous le titre « The Soul Trembles ». Souvent issues d'expériences personnelles, ses œuvres ont captivé des personnes du monde entier et de tous horizons en questionnant des concepts universels tels que l'identité, les frontières et l'existence.
Read MoreEach artist offers personal views of the need for global cooperation and continued policy changes regarding environmental justice, sea level rise, ocean plastic pollution, gender equity and the return to basic humanity and empathy in this unprecedented exhibition. The highly visible exhibition may be seen in the day and night on Kura Kura Bali.
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