Tag: Covid-19
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Cosmos and Chaos: Cyfest-13
This exhibition brings together documentary and artistic material exploring the history of ideas of the conquest of the cosmos as well as the chaotic state of our own planet. It is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of man’s first flight…
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Art by Remote: Art Basel Miami Beach
With pandemic closing the Convention Center and moving ABMB online, Miami’s hottest art fair both took place and didn’t
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Everyday Heroes
An outdoor exhibition of art on London’s Southbank celebrates the heroes of lockdown with an eclectic collection of art and poetry
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Héctor Zamora: Lattice Detour (2020)
With its nod to the US-Mexico border wall, Zamora’s installation at the Met raises provocative questions about socioeconomic and environmental issues as well as the increasing scrutiny facing art in public spaces
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En plein air: art in the time of pandemic
With museums and galleries shut due to the pandemic, art had to be rethought. Online shows have their place but can’t compete with seeing the real thing. With that in mind, here is a roundup of New York’s best outdoor…
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Alberta Whittle – interview: ‘No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’
The artist talks about the erasure of black people in everyday society, and how this informs and motivates her to challenge herself, and her audience, with her filmic and performative installations
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Kate Mieczkowska – interview: ‘I have always loved being in front of a big painting. It’s like a duvet, it wraps around you, and you’re lost in it’
The artist talks about the development of her art practice and her curatorial debut, Goddess Now
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Shirley Wu: hong kong artists, women
The San Francisco-based, data-driven creative Shirley Wu has designed a scrolling mountainscape that maps data from Wikipedia to draw attention to Hong Kong’s female artists for the M+’s digital education platform
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Mami Kataoka – interview: ‘We need to look at long-term museum management because this situation will linger’
The director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo explains how it has used its online presence and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, and considers how this will shape the future of exhibitions and the funding of museums
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David Blandy – interview: ‘The online world can be a space for transformation, a place for better understanding our offline existence’
Blandy talks about his new films, produced during lockdown and made to be viewed at home, his use of video games to produce art, and how his works, which deal with cultural appropriation, postcolonial legacies and racism, have turned out…
