Author Archives: jolanta
Female artists are representing more countries than ever in national pavilions
Venice Biennale represents rebalancing in the art world VENICE (AP) — A Nigerian art critic and museum director is the first African to curate the Biennale contemporary art fair that opens Saturday for its seven-month run, while female artists are representing more countries than ever in national pavilions — trends seen as an informal rebalancing […]
Gulf Labor and Other Arts Groups Occupy Venice’s Guggenheim
VENICE — At 10:20am this morning, two boatloads of artists and activists occupied the dock landing of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (PGC) in Venice. It marks the first joint action between GULF (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) and Gulf Labor, which is an official participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale, and two Italian organizations, Sale Docks […]
Ukrainian artists occupy Russian pavilion at Venice Biennale
Mock occupation by activists in military uniforms mimics Russia’s military incursion into east Ukraine Mimicking the Russian military involvement in east Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian artists and activists have staged a mock-occupation of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, descending on the venue in camouflage fatigues. The artists then urged visiting tourists to […]
e-flux: “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,”
Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue One Architecture remains the most tangible way of constructing the social. Yet, the system we call “architecture” is not reducible to the physical, the tactile, the obvious. In the history of avant-garde architecture, immateriality and intangibility carried a promise of liberation, of escape […]
Tonight: Sounds Like-Nicholas des Cognets, Mike Calway-Fagen, Janelle Iglesias, Tom Scicluna at DV
Tonight: Sounds Like-Nicholas des Cognets, Mike Calway-Fagen, Janelle Iglesias, Tom Scicluna May 8 – July 20, 2015 Reception, Friday, May 8, 7 – 11 pm Dimensions Variable presents Sounds Like, a group exhibition including the work of Mike Calway-Fagen, Nicholas des Cognets, Janelle Iglesias and Tom Scicluna. The exhibition will run from May 8 – July, 20, 2015. Please join us […]
BEN MOON Exhibit At 366 Fifth Avenue
ARTIST BEN MOON COLLABORATES WITH THE BUILDING ART CURATORIAL PROGRAM ON “THE EVOLUTION OF IDEAS” Lobby Exhibit at 366 Fifth Avenue Launched on Monday, May 4, 2015 NEW YORK, NY – May 7, 2015 – Artist Ben Moon has been selected as the featured artist in the lobby of 366 Fifth Avenue, which is located […]
e-flux Journal: On Art Activism
By Boris Groys On Art Activism Current discussions about art are very much centered on the question of art activism—that is, on the ability of art to function as an arena and medium for political protest and social activism. The phenomenon of art activism is central to our time because it is a new phenomenon—quite […]
“NY CONCERT FOR NEPAL” BY QUEENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
“NY CONCERT FOR NEPAL” BY QUEENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 5/31 The “NY Concert for Nepal” will be performed by the Queensboro Symphony Orchestra in their season finale on Sunday, May 31st 7pm at Mary’s Nativity Church in Flushing, NY with proceeds from the free-will offering benefitting the people of Nepal affected by the earthquake. Led by […]
Tomer Sapir / Terra Incognita
In this exhibition Sapir continues his ongoing project “Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index,” a coming into being lexicon of objects. The term “crypto-taxidermy” alludes to the embalming of animals that are not part of the official zoological index. Sapir’s cataloguing system undermines familiar systems of classification and distorts coherency and differentiated meaning. The objects […]
Janet Echelman’s light-as-air sculpture rises over the Greenway
Floating sculpture rises over the Greenway Half-acre net tethered between buildings to waft overhead until Oct. Is it a giant jellyfish? A spaceship? An outsized butterfly net? Whatever it is, Brookline artist Janet Echelman’s light-as-air sculpture, which turned heads as it soared over the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway on Sunday morning, took a village to […]
