21-century art, design, performance, environment
Sasha Huber is a multidisciplinary artist who hopes that our world would be a better place for people with different ethnic and racial backgrounds. She is determined to continue her family's Haitian heritage in the arts, and has challenged the postcolonial controversies left behind by figures like Christopher Columbus and Louis Agassiz. Her artistic career has brought … Continue reading Artist in focus: Sasha Huber
WONDER exhibition celebrates the Renwick Gallery's reopened spaces. The museum's new statement is to bring the future of art into its program. It is now confronted with large-scale installations by nine artists. Janet Echelman is one of them with her piece 1.8, (2015). A large suspended net glides across the ceiling of the Grand Salon, which … Continue reading Janet Echelman’s 1.8
Artist Riitta Ikonen traveled recently to Greenland to discover new artistic work that reflects interaction between humans and their natural environment. Her exhibition, “Glacial Reveries”, is on view at The Chimney Exhibition & Performance venue in Brooklyn until February 7th. Interestingly, the body of work touches directly a topic of glaciers and their fate in … Continue reading Riitta Ikonen’s artistic day dreaming
Artist Ofri Cnaani has created a new photography exhibition consisting of prints and a performance piece at Andrea Meislin Gallery. Photographies on display echo ideas deriving from Xerox art of the 1960s simultaneously connecting with the visual world of the mesmerizing early photography of the 20th century. The exhibition ‘Wrong Tools’ will be on display … Continue reading Ofri Cnaani’s ‘Wrong Tools’
The Thing Itself is a summer group exhibition currently on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City. Photography is explored as a medium and a subject matter in this show that runs from July 10 until August 22, 2014. As a medium, photography has gone through multiple changes. A change with technological advances … Continue reading The Thing Itself -photography exhibit at Yancey Richardson
Japanese contemporary choreographer Hiroaki Umeda recently presented his new choreography Peripheral Stream with L.A. Dance Project at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. in 2013, he worked with an ensemble of 11 dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani in Sweden. In the piece, Interfacial Scale, Umeda created the choreography, set, costume, light and sound design. As well as being a … Continue reading Artist spotlight: Hiroaki Umeda discusses his recent works
Two international galleries will present Beijing-based photographer CHEN Wei's works this Spring, starting on April. Hong Kong-based Gallery EXIT hosts Chen Wei's second solo exhibition with the gallery, which opens on April 4th. Gallery EXIT was established in 2008 aiming to focus on artwork that is controversial, progressive, and representing all media. Chen Wei will … Continue reading CHEN Wei’s post-Chinese realities in photography
''As one follows the lines drawn at the map, across the light blue surfaces, further north, twists and turns, further north, straight lines, still north. This is where I see myself, at the island furthest north, at the North End, standing at the northernmost cliff, facing the North Sea.'' (Tonje Bøe Birkeland/Lumiére, from Papa Westray … Continue reading Nordic nature: light and darkness represented
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3luSh4rbc8 Artist Suhair Sibai was born in Syria in 1956. She was educated as an artist in Los Angeles, California. Her work explores identity and the self through beautiful and colorful female portraits. Suhair Sibai is based in Los Angeles, where she exhibits her art and works as an artist. Her work has also received … Continue reading The Art of SUHAIR SIBAI
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