Tag: contemporary art
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Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art by Fereshteh Daftari – book review
This is a valuable guide to the history of the reception of modern and contemporary Iranian art in the west, offering a broad outlook on cultural interactions between Iran and major American cultural institutions in the past three decades
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The Armory Show 2019
From historical displays to recent works by relatively unknown artists, from performance to installation, from politically provocative and conceptual pieces to ornamental presentations, this year’s Armory presented a well-measured display of opposing – even conflicting – trends within the art…
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Frieze New York 2017
The fair’s extensive list of programmes and projects, including a symposium on Latin American art, performances and films, celebrated diversity by including domesticated ‘others’, but failed to deal with the reality of the world outside the tent
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Tate Modern Switch House
After more than a decade and over £250m in funds, Tate Modern’s new sibling has opened its doors, displaying an exhilarating approach to accessibility, flexibility and curatorial innovation
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Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art
This tightly curated and fascinating exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces featuring beds used in birth, sex, illness and death, from a first-century advert for a brothel in Pompeii to a Tracey Emin four-poster
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Good Figures: An exhibition of the female form depicted by 30 contemporary female artists
Thirty contemporary female artists, ranging in age from 24 to 82, celebrate the enduring appeal of the female form in everything from photography to drawing, ceramics, film and sculpture
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Here and Elsewhere
New Museum, New York 16 July – 28 September 2014
