In his Afro-Expressionist paintings and installations, Adjani Okpu-Egbe ruminates on native resistance in Cameroon and the colonial propaganda promoted in mainstream media.
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Fall Open Studios at the International Studio & Curatorial Program with Guest Speaker Jonas Mekas
ISCP presents contemporary art by 35 international artists, November 9 and 10.
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Visions of Taiwan and the Powers that Shaped It
As Shake shows us, the island state’s geography and political history have a lot in common.
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Brooklyn Commons Discussion Series at the International Studio & Curatorial Program
Three public talks featuring artists Ulrike Müller, Suzanne McClelland, and Haim Steinbach, with ISCP residents Taloi Havini, Sonia Louise Davis, and Remy Jungerman.
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Visit the International Studio & Curatorial Program’s Fall Open Studios, November 10–11
View the work of contemporary artists and curators from 22 countries.
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Sculptures that Abstract the Data of Income Inequality
I should like the exhibition Measures of Inequity by the artists Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens at the International Studio and Curatorial Program.
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Tricking Perception in a Maze of Mirrors
Natasha Johns-Messenger has created a maze of mirrors in “ThreeFold” (2015). It will make you laugh at how easily mirrors can trick and fool your mind.
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Locating Loss, from Damascus to Manhattan’s Little Syria
“Audiences are understandably tired of the polarizing and dominant narratives of the mainstream media and political conversations,” Stephen Stapleton, co-founder of the arts non-profit Edge of Arabia, tells me on an afternoon in July.
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Getting an International Glimpse at Open Studios
Upstairs at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, on the third floor, there’s a map tacked to a wall with a series of flags planted in it. The flags document the different countries from which the ISCP has drawn its artist and curator residents, and while it’s easy to notice gaps — large swaths of Africa and South America, for instance — it’s also refreshing to note how many flags there are, and how widespread. With 58 countries and counting, it’s clear that the ISCP is committed to finding art in the far-flung corners of the world; the process just takes time.
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A Blind-Date Artists’ Talk Casts Doubt on Beauty
Despite the drizzle on a chilly evening, there was a packed (if small) house last night at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP); the reason was a conversation between Brooklyn artist Josiah McElheny and Parisian artist Camille Henrot.
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From Car Hoods to Vajazzling
South African artist Frances Goodman doesn’t apologize about much when it comes to art.
