Artists Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel’s transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.
Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal is an artist whose computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer software animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. In 2011 his book Immersion Into Noise was published by the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with the Open Humanities Press. He exhibited in Noise, a show based on his book, as part of the Venice Biennale 55, and is artistic director of the Minóy Punctum Book/CD.
The Visionary Modernist Experiments of Nicolas Schöffer
An exhibition at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art tells the story of early experiments that led to the first cybernetic sculpture in art history
How Raoul Hausmann Went From Dada Provocateur to Sensual and Earnest Photographer
For Hausmann, who was one of the founders of Berlin Dada, realist nature photography became a preferred means of his post-Dada expression, picked up during his sojourns to the North Sea and Baltic coasts in the early 1930s.
In a Parisian Cemetery, a Lovely Brancusi Has Vanished in Plain Sight
Brancusi’s “The Kiss” has stood atop Tatiana Rachewskaïa’s tomb for more than a century, but six months ago it was covered up and its future remains a mystery.
The Dadaists’ Fevered Dreams of Africa
Dada Africa is an exhibition that exhumes the collision between the Dadaists’ preconceived notions of Africa and actual African cultural artifacts.
Michelangelo Traces the States of Being and Non-being
Michelangelo’s sensitive phantasmagorical drawings are riveting because they are fierce and fragile; strength and tenderness, like figure and ground, are tied together, neither one complete without the other.
The Elegant and Affordable Prefab Architecture of Jean Prouvé
An exhibition at the LUMA Foundation in Arles features 12 of the socially-minded architects buildings made from easily assembled prefabricated parts.
A Year in the Life of Pablo Picasso
An exhibition at the Musée National Picasso in Paris tracks the artist’s life and work, month-to-month, in 1932.
A Trove of Dadaist Fun Is Reissued
As part of the Dada centennial celebrations, Ugly Duckling Presse has published a 1000-copy, boxed-set, limited-edition facsimile of the two editions of The Blind Man, called The Blind Man: New York Dada, 1917.
Pop Goes the Ugly American Stereotypes
An exhibition at Musée Maillol demonstrates that Pop Art did not then, and does not now, matter — because it has never been a site of cultural resistance, but rather a scene of authoritarianism rooted in an affirmation of top-down corporate affluence.
Gauguin’s Decorative and Graphic Art, Beyond His Paintings of Paradise
Paul Gauguin’s decorative works, sculpture, wood carvings, and graphic artworks highlight his stimulating color harmonies and rich compositions, even as some of the subject matter sits uncomfortably with today’s standards.
The Expanded Listening Experience of a Polyphonic Sound Installation
With just a bit of attention, one can enjoy radically spatialized music, with voice and sounds experienced in ways far different to stereo listening.