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Walid Raad Scratching on Things I Disavow at the Museum of Modern Art probes the interconnections of art, money, history, in the Middle East, focusing on Saadiyat (Happiness) Island in Dubai.
Museum of Modern Art disrupts our expectations in one exhibition after another, engaging political art, reinterpreting historical modernists and surprising us with irreverence.
Two blogs about Syria make visible with video, drawings, signs, and photographs, the realities for people on the ground as they are on the receiving end of bombs from one country after another.
El Presente at El Museo del Barrio features the Young Lords of 1969-71, their activism and their art, a wonderful piece of history.
On this World AIDS Day, I offer a review of the comprehensive exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum, Art AIDS America. It includes 127 works, many media, and a thesis that artists who addressed AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s permanently changed the course of American art by demonstrating strategies to address political issues.
“Not Vanishing: Contemporary Native American Art, 1977 – 2015” features 78 works of art by 49 artists from 23 tribes in the Northwest. In all media, and combining aesthetics, politics, history and urgent contemporary issues, this show at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, is not to be missed. It closes on January 3.
My Review of Nato Thompson’s Seeing Power, Art and Activism in the 21st Century. Thompson is curator of Creative Time.
the subtle and beautiful exhibition “Constructs” at the Wing Luke Museum features interactive installations by Asian Pacific Women Artists ranging from a canvas house to calligraphy carried into the landscapes of Seattle. Each installation is both personal and universal in their implications.
After Midnight: Contemporary Art in India 1947/1997 curated by Dr, Arshila Lokhandwala offers a sophisticated dialogue of contemporary India with global modernism, postmodernism and current issues.
Migration the Exhibition in Columbia City Guest Gallery until July 7 includes art about detention, migration, femicide, and much more by Deborah Faye Lawrence, Tatiana Garmendia, and Cecilia Alvarez
From Indigenous poets to Raging Grannies, from children and youth to college students, to people of every age, everyone is participating in the protest of Shell’s Polar Pioneer oil drilling platform with creative non violent civil disobedience at its best
@Large Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz is a brilliant installation about detention and freedom in the former federal prison. Using kites, lego, porcelain, music, poetry, and postcards, @Large conveys the nightmare of detentio
We can see the state of the earth and our spiritual crisis in the work of Rameschwar Broota and Nalini Malani at the Kirin Nadar Museum
Three exhibitions offer a conversation about native creativity, its history, its extraordinary media, and the contemporary artists in the Northwest who continue to honor and alter it.
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict” presents the repeated destruction and instant death enabled by contemporary technology
Rodrigo Valenzuela juxtaposes the words and experiences of migrants and other workers in the midst of the collapse of the utopian discourses of modernism and its structures, both philosophical and physical. He jarringly disconnects words and images to reveal the deep fissures in our society.
Past and present in India mix in the stunning exhibition “City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India” It includes artists working in urban centers throughout the country. Until December 7 it is paired with a fascinating, small show at the Asian Art Museum of Mughal art and artifacts.
Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: the Mythic and the Mystical and La Toya Ruby Frazier: Born by a River, two exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum in the last six months.
Syria Speaks is a profoundly moving new book published by English Pen with a collection of essays, art, and analysis of culture in Syria since the uprising began in 2011.
Matika Wilbur’s Project 562 reveals a romantic point of view.
Parellel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane at the Henry Art Gallery. The two artists have different roots, philosophies and trajectories.
At the outset of her poetic presentation, Carletta Carrington Wilson declared that her exhibition “Unchain My Heart” (listen!) is a testament to mystery. Her exhibition at Art Xchange Gallery included selections from three series of works, “constellation of shadows and leaves” (2006) “Orange You Mingus” (2008-9), and “book of the bound” (2011-12). The artist explained […]
Exploring C. Davida Ingram’s exhibition “Stereotype” as well as briefer reference to powerhouse artists , La Toya Ruby Frazier and Marita Dingus,
Antoni Tàpies Catalan Master and political activist throughout his life. His grand and beautiful paintings and material objects always have a subtext of the anguish of the Franco years and concern for the injustice of the wars of the 21st century.
Azerbaijan had two pavilions in Venice, “Love Me Love Me Not,” reached out to its neighbors and was steeped in contemporary theory, the other focused on the straightforward theme of “Ornamentation,” but both enhanced our understanding of the contemporary art from this region.