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Nick Cave

Posted inArt

The Joyous Kitsch and Lingering Simmer of Nick Cave’s Art

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer September 29, 2022November 9, 2022

With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity.

Posted inArt

In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate Ecology

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 5, 2021October 6, 2021

The exhibition includes paintings by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, along with contemporary works focusing on habitat protection and environmental sustainability.

Posted inNews

Nick Cave’s “Truth Be Told” Cannot Be Censored, Says Kinderhook Zoning Board in Unanimous Vote

Avatar photo by Laura van Straaten February 4, 2021February 8, 2021

After a months-long dispute, the 160-foot artwork was recently removed from Jack Shainman Gallery’s upstate outpost, but a recent vote ruled that Cave’s message was “a political message and art” and therefore protected by the First Amendment.

Posted inArt

When Nick Cave’s Truth Was Told in Kinderhook, New York

Avatar photo by Laura van Straaten February 1, 2021February 2, 2021

A local zoning appeals board hearing will soon decide whether Cave’s colossal textual work, “Truth Be Told,” is art protected by the First Amendment, or rather a sign that may be regulated by law.

Posted inNews

The High Line Wants You to Weigh in on Its Next Public Sculptures

by Hakim Bishara August 13, 2020November 5, 2020

From playful to political, there are 80 options by artists including Nick Cave, Mona Hatoum, and Wang Sishun.

Posted inArt

Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum

Avatar photo by Louis Bury February 15, 2020February 14, 2020

At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.

Posted inArt

Artist Nick Cave Talks About Surrendering to the Sacred

Avatar photo by Diana Sette April 12, 2019April 15, 2019

Hyperallergic spoke with Cave about what it means to surrender to the sacred, and how a queer perspective brings liberation and a way of seeing and being in an at-times seemingly disconnected world.

Posted inArt

A Hybrid Museum-Hotel Sets Up in Kansas City With an Exhibition as Refuge

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 12, 2018

At museum-hotel chain 21c’s new Kansas City location, an art exhibit reflects on immigration and refuge.

Posted inIn Brief

Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber October 9, 2018

The late civil rights activist and Black arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz has bestowed the “largest gift ever made of contemporary art by artists of African descent” to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Posted inPerformance

Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 2, 2018July 3, 2018

In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.

Posted inArt

The Distracting Whimsy of Nick Cave’s Sculptural Field

by Robert Moeller December 20, 2016

The decorative alchemy that should transform these objects into a stronger form of messaging falls flat.

Posted inMusic

Singer-Songwriters Confess Their Feelings: Mitski, Nick Cave, Jamila Woods, Angel Olsen

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen October 30, 2016October 30, 2016

When personal expression is your aesthetic mode, then aesthetic quality depends on quality of personality.

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