Rachel Whiteread (1963) has been casting the “negative spaces” – the inside of from something as small a water bottle to an entire house – for three decades. She was the first woman ever to win the Turner Prize in … Continue reading casting the negative since 1988
When I went to the Whitney this summer, I wondered why it was showing a retrospective of the Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica (1937—1980). Of course, I’m all for diversity but the Whitney Museum of American Art “presents a full range of … Continue reading organized delirium?
If the final meaning of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ work is constructed by the viewer, the exact opposite can be said of Laure Prouvost’s work. Laure Prouvost (1978) is a French artist who studied film at Central Saint Martins and attended Goldsmiths and … Continue reading bossed by prouvost
I often wonder how Untitled (Go-go Dancing Platform), 1991, fits into Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ oeuvre. The Cuban born artist is famous for his candy piles, stacks of posters (for both examples, the viewers are encouraged to take a piece), puzzle postcards, and … Continue reading on the spot
“How do people disappear in an age of total over-visibility? Are people hidden by too many images? Do they go hide amongst other images? Do they become images?” … Continue reading out of the ordinary
When you focus on political art, sometimes, you find yourself wondering where politics end and art starts. This was very much the case when I came across Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) Anti-Brexit posters. Tillmans is a German photographer, whose studio is … Continue reading playing hardball
“Look at me and know that to destroy me is to destroy yourself” – Gordon Parks, “A Harlem Family,” 1968 I Am You. Only after seeing, thinking, reflecting, Gordon Parks’ exhibition at the FOAM, I can kind of figure out what … Continue reading try to understand his struggle against our racism
“It’s easy to feel insecure around art and its appreciation, as though we cannot enjoy certain artworks if we don’t have a lot of academic and historical knowledge. But if there’s one message that I want you to take away … Continue reading art?
I find Performance art a very difficult thing. I find it ungraspable, indefinable, unsettled, uncertain, and incomprehensible. I simply find it impossible to pinpoint what it is and incorporates. Many different occurrences are classified under the title ‘performance art’. In … Continue reading performance art? PART ONE.
“The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education.” In 1971, Linda Nochlin took the lead in developing a feminist critique of art history by … Continue reading feminist critique of art history blastoff
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