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Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale
“Here is Where We Jump” Museo del Barrio La Bienal full of young Latino/a artists working in experimental media. The blog explores where is cultural identity today?
Thanks No Tanks an art exhibition in Haida Gwaii, BC, protests plans for oil tankers of tar sands to pass through Hecate Straits. The Haida are protesting with body, mind and spirit. The coastal ecology is the same as Puget Sound, where the tankers are also proposed to pass by.
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
Goya speaks to our modern world of oppression of the poor, arrogance of the rich and their fawning followers as though he created Los Caprichos yesterday.
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
Sopheap Pich makes stunning sculptures from rattan that are imbued with his Cambodian culture both present and past.
Under My Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century at the Wing Luke Museum includes a stimulating and poetic group of worksby 26 artists in many media. IT is not to be missed and more than one visit is neciessary.
Contemporary art in the Basque country has a long history before Bilbao and after.
Deborah Willis “Out O Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty” at the Henry Art Gallery changes the way we see photographs and shakes up our preconceived ideas.
Protests of Keystone XL, coal trains, fracking, and the biggest oil presence in our lives explained at the Burke Museum in “Plastics Unwrapped”
Lynn Hershmann Leeson Women Art Revolution tells the canonical history of US feminist art. Where are the other histories of feminist art?
Democracy Now in honor of the New Year had a program called “Culture of Resistance”, but it omitted visual artists and many voices. I wrote an imaginary interview with Amy Goodman to fill the gap.
Women Photographers with roots in South Asia and Afghanistan show challenging work about cultural contradictions and Tanis S’eiltin, Tlinglit installation artist challenges fixed ideas on Indigenous culture.
Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.
Cotter’s recent review of an exhibition of Joan Miro at the Museum of Modern Art was startling. He is consciously taking on the current political language of war and using it to apply to modern art. It works as an eye catching article, but why does it bother me so much? Here is an excerpt: […]
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East at the British Museum explores the complexity of contemporary Middle Eastern culture from the perspective of the use of calligraphy and text.