[ad_1] Bruce Yonemoto, “Untitled, 1” (2023) in the exhibition Scratching at the Moon” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (courtesy the artist and O-Town House, Los Angeles) From the title of Sharon Mizota’s article “Asian-American Art Is Plagued by Generational Amnesia,” published in Hyperallergic on March 19, through the many paragraphs where she describes […]

[ad_1]  Photography #portraits #street photography #Tony Van Le April 21, 2024 Jackie Andres “The Magic Number.” All images © Tony Van Le, shared with permission As John Koening writes in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, the term sonder refers to “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex […]

[ad_1] Spyglass, part one of New York University’s (NYU) annual MFA thesis exhibition, opens with a work that showcases its own making. Robin Gammons’s “Foldings” (2024) feel like old memories, often revisited, occasionally rewritten. Laser prints and newsprints, largely of landscapes and sunsets, are folded so that their creases carve intersecting lines throughout the composition, […]

[ad_1]  Art #art history #installation #Manolo Valdés #public art #sculpture April 18, 2024 Grace Ebert ‘Las Meninas a San Marco’ (2024). All images courtesy of Contini Art Gallery, shared with permission Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work […]

[ad_1] Presented for the first time in the context of the city of Prague, A devoured hedge burrows deep II is an interactive spatial installation featuring a virtual game that forges new avenues for aesthetic and environmental engagement.  The experiential and entertaining aspect of the game is presented as a possible way to face complex issues of ecological catastrophe concerning […]

[ad_1]  Art #afrofuturism #Cyrus Kabiru #fashion #found objects #sculpture April 17, 2024 Kate Mothes All images © Cyrus Kabiru, shared with permission Ranging from mechanical parts and cooking utensils to plastic caps and beads, Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru fashions dazzling eyewear and helmets from salvaged and found objects. The futuristic forms often obscure the eyes […]

[ad_1] Swifties are swarming The Grove in Los Angeles in a days-long hunt for clues about Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department (2024). In advance of the album’s April 19 release, the singer-songwriter collaborated with Spotify on a three-day pop-up “library installation” that went on display in the open-air shopping mall yesterday, […]

[ad_1]  Art #animals #birds #sculpture #Tamara Kostianovsky #textiles April 17, 2024 Grace Ebert All images © RX & Slag, shared with permission If you walked into an exhibition featuring work from Tamara Kostianovsky in recent years, you likely encountered life-sized carcasses dangling from meat hooks. The Argentine-American artist (previously) is perhaps best known for these […]

[ad_1] This month we’re featuring a poet who paints, a painter who tapes, a legendary feminist, and two sculptors who have protested colonial powers in the United States and Canada. While the summer weather alone might not warrant a trek to Madison Square Park, Rose B. Simpson’s powerful, earthy installation is well worth a trip. […]