Events
Two LA Curators Offer Sneak Preview of Their Work at South Korea Biennial
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s own Christine Y. Kim and Rita Gonzalez are co-curators at this year’s Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s oldest contemporary art biennial.
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Uffizi Gallery’s Vast Sculpture Collection Goes Online in Interactive 3D Scans
The historic Uffizi Gallery in Florence partnered with Indiana University informatics and art history students and faculty to undertake the five-year project.
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Toledo, Ohio’s Momentum Features Glass, Music, Art and Makers in Free Festival, September 13–15
Toledo’s Promenade Park will be transformed by dynamic interactive art projects, art exhibitions and performances, innovative music across a spectrum of genres, and a Mini Maker Faire.
The Criminally Overlooked Talent of Baroque Painter Michaelina Wautier
Michaelina Wautier’s artistic talent was on par with that of her famous male contemporaries, like Rubens and Van Dyck. The first-ever retrospective of her work offers long overdue recognition.
Six Solo Shows in Sharjah Challenge Curators to Look Beyond the Usual Suspects
Part I of two reports from the 2018 Spring Exhibitions and the March Meeting in Sharjah.
Comics
An Illustrator Revisits His Fifth-Grade Sketchbook
For his new zine, Travis Millard redrew his childhood sketchbook.
Art
Sound Artist Ryoji Ikeda Visualizes Big Data
Ryoji Ikeda’s overwhelming sound and video installations, exhibited at Centre Pompidou, evoke the totalitarian grip that Big Data holds on our daily lives.
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Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Aram Han Sifuentes’s We Are Never Never Other
Commissioned by the Pulitzer as a part of the artist’s residency, We Are Never Never Other is a large-scale protest banner installed on the facade of the museum in St. Louis, MO.
Events
A Collective Designs “Funktional” Objects that Combine Fine Art and the Everyday
Con Artist Collective promises to showcase work that combines the “tenuous space between fine art and the everyday.”
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Nasher Prize Dialogues: Performance as Sculpture, Featuring Theaster Gates and Ragnar Kjartansson
The dynamic conversation will explore the role of performance within artists’ respective sculptural practices.
Art
The True Collaborative Power Between Artist and Curator
You can approach each work in this show as individual, but the really charming and kinetic action happens in the interactions.
An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes
The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.