Over 120 pairs of tables placed one on top of the other and separated by a block of earth, from which sprout slim blades of grass: this is Plegaria Muda, the latest project by Doris Salcedo. In its modular repetition, the work evokes a collective burial place and is a metaphor for sacrificial lives led [...]
Documentary Fortnight: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media February 16–28, 2012 The Museum of Modern Art, New York 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 708-9400 MoMA.org DOCUMENTARY FORTNIGHT BRINGS AN INTERNATIONAL SELECTION OF 27 FILMS TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN FEBRUARY Festival includes a retrospective dedicated to Paper [...]
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art February 16–June 10, 2012 Opening: Wednesday, February 15, 7:30–9 pm Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu From the 1930 “Manifesto of Futurist Cooking” to a new food truck serving Iraqi cuisine on the streets of Chicago, the University of [...]
February 18–May 27, 2012 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94103 ybca.org Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large, from February 18 through May 27, 2012. Audience as Subject is a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism [...]
February 15 to April 13, 2012 The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus Farmington Hills, Metro Detroit, Michigan Synagogues are built by Communities with hope and prayers for the future, and yet, as places of Tradition, they embody the echoes of past generations. History brings changes to Communities. They move, they migrate by choice or [...]
UC Berkeley is running an exhibit Women at Cal, 1910-1915: When California Passed the Woman Suffrage Amendment, which examines the status of women on campus in this critical period.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) presents In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Spanning over four decades, the exhibition features about 175 works by forty-seven extraordinary artists.
The Bootstrap Arts Festival, an offspring of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) artist as entrepreneur initiative has released its preliminary schedule of exhibits and performances.
Woman Made Gallery presents thought-provoking and environmentally conscious work of multi-media artist Claudia Kleefeld in the exhibition “Patterns of Nature: The Spiral and Interconnectedness”. 2 March-26 April, 2012. Venue: Woman Made Gallery, 685 North Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, Illinois.
MINNEAPOLIS – Leeson’s new film !Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.) is a documentary that combines interviews, artwork, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, collected over the past 40 years, to detail the evolution of the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present.
Sofia Szamosi describes her art process for creating photo booth collages: “The photo booth becomes a microcosm for the boxes I experience daily… This is a public art—photo booths sit in commercial spaces. There is an inherent performance and exhibition involved in the process, and this is one more boundary. The flimsy curtain between me and the proprietor is another boundary and the risk of exposure and exile becomes one more thrill.”
OSAKA, JAPAN. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART. Suzanne Kamata reviews Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s current exhibition Eternity of Eternal Eternity, now traveling around Japan.
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