SCA graduate students create immersive VR project | Daily Trojan By KARLIE TERUYA, November 8, 2017 With the growth of virtual reality technology, many students are exploring innovative ways to incorporate the technology into artistic and media-related projects. Two students from the School of Cinematic Arts’ media arts and practice program have integrated a virtual …
How ruling class controls the public Gao Lei addresses power, violence By Kwon Mee-yoo. Korea Times, Dec 2017 Exhibition ran until January 7 2018 Editor’s note: old news Chinese artist Gao Lei explores the power, control and violence of the ruling class in contemporary society through witty and allegorical art. “I was inspired by French …
The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | Into The Voids: Traversing The Work Of Raymond Depardon, December 2017 Editor’s note: old news Extract At the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson in Paris, Adam Scovell explores one of the most important European post-war photographers still working today. […] Depardon captures institutes with a rare eye; the faces …
Kehinde Wiley review – black souls sail between empowerment and exploitation | Art and design | The Guardian by Skye Sherwin, Sat 25 Nov 2017 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Editor’s note: old news Kehinde Wiley: In Search of the Miraculous is at Stephen Friedman gallery, London, until 27 January. The US artist picked as Obama’s …
Catherine Soussloff, “Foucault on Painting” (U Minnesota Press, 2017) podcast In Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Catherine Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained largely overlooked: his engagement with painting. Indeed Foucault, we learn, described himself as a painter. Throughout his career, he examined painting and the image as he pursued critical elements …
Photographing the Shiny, Kitsch Interiors of Italian Ferry Boats | AnOther, 9 May 2018 Allegra Martin is fascinated by the idea that ferries are “places suspended in time and space”, and has been photographing on board for almost a decade 20th-century philosopher Michel Foucault’s theory of heterotopia – the idea that spaces exist with various layers …
Britt Lorraine’s “Panopticon” Exhibition Formed Over 15 Years, Opens This Weekend | ArtSlut,, May 17, 2018 Free, Sat May 19, 7-10pm (on view through June 23 with additional performances to be announced), Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., San Antonio, Texas, USA (210) 972) 900-0047, saladiazart.org. One of 19 local artists featured in the Contemporary Arts Museum …
A Photo Journey Through Italy’s Abandoned Nightclubs – Noisey By Laura Petillo, translated by Cristina Politano, May 14 2017 Discotex, a new documentary project, offers an audiovisual glimpse into the cathedrals from the glory days of Italian vinyl. […] Melillo’s journey is probably best summarized as a study in understanding a location as an extension …
Elmgreen & Dragset at Istanbul Biennial 2017, Bazaar, September 14, 2017 The Danish-Norwegian artist duo have been challenging notions of power through their multidisciplinary work since they first emerged in 1995. They’ve now taken on the curation of this year’s Istanbul Biennial. Maria Marques speaks to them in Istanbul. In the winter of 2012, an …
Turkish, German museums present joint show – Daily Sabah, April 18 2018 The Arter Gallery in Istanbul and Neues Museum Nürnberg have collaborated for a joint exhibition featuring three artists’ work centering on the theme of silence Arter Gallery Istanbul and Neues Museum Nürnberg have collaborated for the exhibition titled “Zamanın Kıyısında” (On the Edge …
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