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Walid Raad Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
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.
This entry was posted on February 23, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
The Museum of Modern Art and the Art of Disruption
Museum of Modern Art disrupts our expectations in one exhibition after another, engaging political art, reinterpreting historical modernists and surprising us with irreverence.
This entry was posted on February 20, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized. -
Abounaddara and Syria Freedom Forever: Making visible the ongoing tragedy of Syria:
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.
This entry was posted on December 16, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art in War, Syria, Uncategorized. -
“¡Presente!: The Young Lords in New York”
El Presente at El Museo del Barrio features the Young Lords of 1969-71, their activism and their art, a wonderful piece of history.
This entry was posted on December 8, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black Panthers, Feminism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Art AIDS America at the Tacoma Art Museum on World AIDS Day
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.
This entry was posted on December 1, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, democracy, First Nations Art, Uncategorized. -
“Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977 – 2015”
“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.
This entry was posted on November 24, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, indians, Indigenous activism, Indigenous Art, Photography, teddy bears, Uncategorized. -
A visit to the home of contemporary Turkish Artist Tomur Atagök
A visit to the home of contemporary Turkish artist Tomur Atagök provided me with new insights into her paintings and collages about politics and nature.
This entry was posted on October 19, 2015 and is filed under Contemporary Art, Feminism, Turkish Women Artists, Uncategorized. -
“Tuzlu Su” “Saltwater” Istanbul Biennial 2015
“Tuzlu Su”, (Saltwater) hides its purpose behind science, mysticism, and a strenuous itinerary that requires viewers to sail on the Bosphorus and the sea of Marmara.
This entry was posted on October 15, 2015 and is filed under Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Biennial 14, Turkish Women Artists, Uncategorized. -
QUIET INSIGHTS INTO STRUGGLE AND JOY AWAIT YOU AT THE WING
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.
This entry was posted on September 24, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
I GRIEVE FOR SYRIA, VICTIM OF CULTURAL GENOCIDE
Henry Matthews appalled by the refugee crisis and recalling the generosity and optimism he experienced in Syria before the Civil War, agonizes over the fate of people he met there. He grieves for the loss of life and the destruction of cultural heritage in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Palmyra, Raqqa, and Deir Ez-Zor.
This entry was posted on September 16, 2015 and is filed under Syria, Uncategorized. -
After Midnight: Contemporary Art in India At the Queens Museum of Art
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.
This entry was posted on August 28, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Joy in Greece in the midst of Crisis: Constellation
” Constellation” a multi media cultural festival on the remote Greek island of Amorgos in the Cyclades defies the idea that Greeks are in a state of worried anxiety. There were performances all over the island for ten days, all for free.
This entry was posted on July 7, 2015 and is filed under Greek Festival, Uncategorized. -
“Migration” the exhibition until July 5
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
This entry was posted on June 17, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Barack Obama, Immigration, Indigenous activism, Migration, Uncategorized. -
Led by Indigenous voices, all ages protest Arctic Drilling
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
This entry was posted on June 11, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, ecology, First Nations Art, Indigenous Art, Seattle Art, Uncategorized. -
@Large Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
@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
This entry was posted on May 18, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Contemporary Art, Detained, dragons, global justice, Uncategorized. -
Rameschwar Broota and Nalini Malani at the Kiran Nadar Museum in Delhi
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
This entry was posted on March 25, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art In India, Feminism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict”
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict” presents the repeated destruction and instant death enabled by contemporary technology
This entry was posted on February 25, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, South Africa, Uncategorized. -
Rodrigo Valenzuela, the 13th man and the end of Utopia
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.
This entry was posted on February 7, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, democracy, economic imperialism vs democracy, Performance Art, Photography, Uncategorized. -
Delhi Feminist Artist Gogi addresses the 2012 Gang Rape of Nirbhaya
Feminist artist Gogi Saroj Pal based in Delhi addresses violence against women in her new work.
This entry was posted on January 27, 2015 and is filed under Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art In India, Feminism, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India at the Seattle Art Museum
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.
This entry was posted on November 11, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art In India, Film, Performance Art, Photography, Picasso, Seattle Art Museum, Uncategorized. -
The Common SENSE: Ann Hamilton at the Henry Art Gallery
Ann Hamilton’s “The Common SENSE” at the Henry Art Gallery embraces our relationship to the planet in a surprisingly disturbing sequence of installations.
This entry was posted on November 4, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, ecology, John Berger, Uncategorized. -
Art in Seattle from my monthly Leschi column: “Modernism in the Pacific Northwest” and ” La Toya Ruby Frazier: Born by a River,”
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.
This entry was posted on September 23, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
The Tate Modern “A Chronicle of Interventions” Spring 2014
Tate Modern London”A Chronicle of Interventions” includes Group Material 1984 Timeline A Chronicle of US Intervention in Central and Latin America.” Other more recent artists from Central America also address colonialism, but with much less passion.
This entry was posted on August 30, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Uncategorized. -
Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
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.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Uncategorized. -
Matika Wilbur’s Project 562 “Changing the Way we See Native America”
Matika Wilbur’s Project 562 reveals a romantic point of view.
This entry was posted on May 22, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Contemporary Art, indians, Uncategorized.
