An expeditious conclusion when contemplating on art in 2017 is that it is starting to reflect how fucked up the world is. The world has always been unfair and full of oppression but people are beginning to speak up intensely and … Continue reading 2017: art or activism?
Spoiler alert: this is a Q&Art blog full of questions, without satisfying answers. Where did art movements go? Are we ever going to talk about art from the 00’s and early 10’s in terms of movements? Art history books seem … Continue reading what is an artist?
Poetry might be the most difficult art medium there is out there. It is something I intentionally avoid. When reading a poem, so many thoughts run through my head: the urge to make something tangible out of it, to understand it, … Continue reading poetry and politics
This week marks the last week of the 57th Venice Biennale. One pavilion that interests me is the Kenyan one which hosts the exhibition Another Country which includes the following artists: Arlene Wandera, Mwangi Hutter, Paul Onditi, Peterson Kamwathi, and Richard Kimathi. I … Continue reading rich reading of contemporary society?
In which way do we see art? What’s the allure of the original piece of art? Why is art difficult? The late John Berger asked himself these very questions in the 70’s. If we are able to find it out, … Continue reading mystification of art; why?
The architecture of the MACBA blew me out of the water. I admired the painstakingly white facade with glistening windows while skateboarders will whirl and whiz past me. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, a modernistic building designed by Richard Meier* (he deserves an asteriks because he has been accused … Continue reading GFA
Last weekend marked the opening of the exhibition Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making. Next to Judy Chicago’s infamous installation, it displays infrequently shown test plates, research documents, ephemera, notebooks, and preparatory drawings from 1971 through 1979. … Continue reading you can’t sit with us
Gloria Jean Watkins alias bell hooks (without capitals, born 1952) has been writing about feminism since her teens. Three years after her first feminist book Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981) was published, she wrote the first edition of Feminist … Continue reading to advocate feminism
It seems to be that De Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has embraced an active role in educating its audience and broadening their spectrum. As I have written before, one can notice that they present a range of exhibitions in which … Continue reading where are you from?
I didn’t have the highest expectations when I entered the door to the Thomas Ruff exhibition. I actually only knew his portraits which look like passport photos. Doesn’t sound breathtaking, mind-blowing or blood-tingling right? Should have known that I should have had high expectations because I’m at the Whitechapel Gallery. Photography has become such a common thing for everyone with a phone. A picture is a picture. Every slightly interesting thing that happens in a day is captured. And that’s it. You don’t think about it anymore. Ruff takes an image, manipulates it and thereby explores all kind of things … Continue reading exploring the possibilities of photography
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