Category All that is marvelous
All that is marvelous: Hito Steyerl
21st-century Baudelairean tactics would feel like a Kamikazi assault coupled with the reassurance of Gestalt therapy. They would place no one above the fray but recognize (his) her own role in a circulation of images that are lying in wait… [Read More…]
All that is marvelous: Finland’s melancholia
The Moving Image art fair features a wide range of artists including Eric Dyer, Peggy Ahwesh, and Leslie Thornton. Shifting Connections highlights the meticulously rendered drawing animation by the Finnish collective IC-98… [Read More…]
All that is marvelous: EAI’s Sleeper Exhibit
If the art world had its own Academy awards, Welcome to My World, an exhibition of artworks by students from PS140 Nathan Straus and MS324 Patria Mirabal at Artists Space Books & Talks, might well be the sleeper hit from 2014! … [Read More…]
All that is marvelous (and eye-opening): Laura Poitras’ Trilogy
“I go to places before they become news. I don’t follow the pack and I don’t look in the same direction as others,” says filmmaker Laura Poitras. Artists Space has provided a unique opportunity to place her most recent film, CITIZENFOUR, within the context of her 9/11 Trilogy that renders transparent the filmmaker’s interest in the story beside the story… [Read More…]
All that is marvelous: Caroline Bergvall
White dots form a strange constellation on a dense black wall – the outline of a zodiac raft – referring to a horrific event from 2011 by which migrants from Africa were cast adrift in the Mediterranean and left to die. Drift is a journey into the primal fear of abandon and abandonment…to be lost, to be without reckoning… [Read More…]
All that is marvelous (and intolerable): Irving Petlin’s Inferno
How do you approach the canvas when you accept responsibility for the problems of the world? For Irving Petlin it means visualizing beyond what we are willing to see… [Read More…]
All that is marvelous: Haacke’s Gift Horse
One could easily believe Hans Haacke’s current exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery is about the cooptation of art in support of ultra-conservative agendas, while, fundamentally, what he shows us is H2O as the basis and the link for all life on earth… [Read More…]
All that is marvelous: Chris Ofili
All That Is Marvelous represents a turn in Shifting Connections – weekly shorts on books, exhibitions, and artworks that radiate Eros even as they face the darkest Thanatos of contemporary systems. This “marvelous” entry features Chris Ofili: Night and Day at the New Museum. [Read More…]
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