Contemporary Art
Deadly Arts 2021
Deadly Arts: An ominously dense deluge of debate hangs heavy in the atmosphere of the art community. Gregor Schneider, a German artist, decided that his next piece of art will be similar to the execution of a criminal. The only difference is that there will be no execution and there will be no criminal, just death […]
Color Chart Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at the MOMA
If you need to infuse a gray spring with a hint of color, New York’s Museum of Modern Art is the place to do it, with the museum’s exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today. The exhibition’s departure point is the commercial color chart, which declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. […]
Repeating Explosions : Cai Guo Qiang 2021
Cai Guo Qiang: How can an exhibition be in two museums at once? We’re not talking about a digital piece or a film, but actual sculptures. If you’re an artist such as Cai Guo Qiang, just make a copy. This is exactly what he did for his Inopportune: Stage One exhibit at the Guggenheim in New York. Well, […]
Another Man’s Trash…. 2021
Another Man’s trash: Sustainability is slowly becoming a part of all aspects of our lives. From organic cotton tees, to reusable shopping totes, to hybrid cars; there are very few parts left untouched by the “green” market. Now, we are even seeing eco-consciousness in the works of artists. Although some creations make a statement about our […]
Unforgettable Post-Communism and Visual Culture 2021
What happens to a country’s visual culture when it moves from Soviet communism to post-Soviet liberalization? A pathbreaking exhibition in the former Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, Epoxa (‘Epoch’) grapples with this question. It presents the republic’s initial independence years, 1991-2005, under the rule of the country’s first post-independence president, Askar Akaev. The Akaev […]
Amazing SFMOMA SECA Award Show 2021
SFMOMA SECA: Bay Area art fans still have a few weeks to see the SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The biennial award is administered by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, an SFMOMA-associated art interest group. Since 1967 the SECA award has honored Bay Area artists of exceptional […]
Louisa Bufardeci and Zon Ito: Remarkable MCA Sydney 2021
Louisa Bufardeci: They say international pairings bring forth interesting children. That is probably due to unrelated gene pools coming together in novel ways, but the same may be true in art. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia has been exploring the potential of international art pairings in an occasional series of exhibitions, the latest of […]
Hanging Fire: Amazing Contemporary Art from Pakistan 2021
Art from Pakistan: The first major survey exhibition of Pakistani contemporary art opens this week at the Asia Society Museum in New York. Titled Hanging Fire, the exhibition provides an important window into the creative energies of a country more often associated in the West with political conflict and social instability. The show includes 55 works by 15 […]
Gabriel Orozco at MoMA: Range, Power and Beauty 2021
The mid-career retrospective of Mexican contemporary artist Gabriel Orozco at the Museum of Modern Art has been drawing rave reviews. Orozco emerged as a rising star in the contemporary art world in the 1990s, and his trajectory continues upward. He may be the preeminent Latin American artist working today. He may be even more. The […]
The Art of Desire 2021
Contemporary art may be most accessible when it explores aspects of human reality we all have in common. With its single-word title, DESIRE, currently ongoing at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, announces itself as a show with a theme that everyone can relate to. That’s not to say the subject–and the art–may not elicit many […]
