Tag: New York
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Drawn Together Again
With 120 artists to choose from, this drawing show is stuffed with treasures. There is something here for everyone
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Devan Shimoyama – interview: ‘I use my body to explore magic, mythology, history, intimacy, joy, pain’
His portraits consider the black, queer, male body from a personal perspective that is as informed by mythology and folklore as it is by everyday life. Shimoyama talks here about his new solo exhibition, Shh … at De Buck Gallery…
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Thomas Bayrle: Playtime
This major retrospective of the work of Thomas Bayrle brings together works from the past 50 years and throws an unsettling light on the nature of society
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Ardan Özmenoğlu: ‘For me, repetition is the only way that you can reach perfection’
The Turkish artist known for her distinctive works with Post-it notes talks about how she turns them into 3D paintings, her love of repetition, political humour, and her latest project, to turn a soap factory into an art space
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Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
As revealed by this tightly curated exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tarsila do Amaral, the latest artist to ride the current wave of Brazilian modernism, turns out to have invented it
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Thomas Hirschhorn: ‘The Gramsci Monument, like all monuments, is made for eternity’
The artist talks about his commitment to art in public spaces, describes how the Gramsci Monument in New York evolved with the help of local people, and explains his belief in the ‘unshared authorship’ of art
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Sara Greenberger Rafferty: ‘What is more essential than how one faces the day?’
The multimedia artist talks about constructing the self through the language of clothing
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Roxy Paine interview: ‘The best ideas come out of long gestation’
Roxy Paine’s Checkpoint is the latest of his meticulously crafted dioramas. He talks about how he fuses industry and nature in his work and why, despite the vast scale of some of his pieces, he still makes everything by hand
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Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend
‘I seek truth. What I seek is anything that will work for me. I’ll use a lie if it works, and that [becomes] the truth.’ Louise Nevelson As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic…
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Purely Elemental: Wood Craft as Fine Art
Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection Museum of Arts and Design, New York 18 May-10 September 2006 The history of turned wood objects is long and varied, changing from functional craft to art to hobby and back again.…
