(Image Courtesy of The European Graduate School) Bringing together renowned philosophers, critical theorists, artists, and practitioners, The European Graduate School supports students seeking a unique intellectual experience, helping them to achieve degrees that can serve them in higher education, the arts, media, and other cultural sectors. The EGS explores art Continue Reading
A view of Kent Monkman’s The Rise and Fall of Civilization installation at the Gardiner Museum in 2015 (photo by Jimmy LImit, and courtesy the Gardiner Museum) Most of our earliest experiences of art are forged at museums. In this episode artist Kent Monkman recounts his own youth visiting institutions Continue Reading
A 1915 photograph of researcher Aram Vruyr’s son with one of many thousand cross-stones at Djulfa, enhanced by Judith Crispin’s Julfa Cemetery Digital Repatriation Project (courtesy Aram Vruyr archives) Moments ago, the global organization for cultural preservation — UNESCO — announced the final list of 29 historical and natural wonders Continue Reading
Ahmad Hammoud, “Passport for the Stateless” (2016) (courtesy apexart) In 2016, Ahmad Hammoud’s artwork “Passport for the Stateless”(2016) was shipped from an exhibition in Dubai back to the artist’s studio in Cairo. But before it was allowed back into the country, suspicious Egyptian customs officials defaced the work with deep lines Continue Reading
My Mother Laughs (courtesy The Song Cave) Chantal Akerman was one of the most influential directors in film history. She would hate such an accolade, but it’s warranted nonetheless. She often made movies — as well as art installations, photographs, and books — about enduring day-to-day living. Women were at Continue Reading
Elmgreen & Dragset, “Temptation” (2012) (photo by Daniel A. Gross for Hyperallergic) Truth be told, most of us walk into art galleries never expecting to afford to purchase any of the artworks on display. We use commercial galleries, especially the big ones, as museum entertainment, and leave the dream of Continue Reading
The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris engulfed in flames on April 15 (via Wikimedia Commons) A painful byproduct of the livestream age is the drastic expansion of helpless witnesses. This past April, people around the world looked transfixed at their computer and phone screens, unable to do anything, as Notre-Dame de Continue Reading
1st Place Cities and Grand Prize: “GREENLANDIC WINTER” BY CHU WEIMIN/ 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST (all images courtesy of National Geographic) An arctic village cloaked in a winter blue hue, a griffon vulture soaring serenely, and two theatre actors in China preparing for a performance inside a cave. These are some Continue Reading
The month of June is a time to celebrate the LGBTQ community and reflect on the advances of queer people to strengthen civil liberties around the world, even in a moment of great political uncertainty. It’s also a good opportunity to spotlight the richness and diversity of culture we have Continue Reading
Unknown artist, Beninese, “Head of a king (Oba)” (probably 1700s) (images courtesy the RISD Museum) Ever since Nigeria won its struggle for independence from colonial European rule in 1960, demands have been made for the return of the “Benin Bronzes,” a group of more than 1,000 bronze sculptures and plaques Continue Reading
Plastic Capitalism. Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, by Amanda Boetzkes, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Amazon USA and UK. Publisher MIT Press writes: Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: Continue Reading
Adam Basanta, an artist, composer and performer of experimental music, likes to turn sound technologies into kinetic and sculptural installations. The way he handles sound objects can be fairly hostile, ironic or even poetical. Adam Basanta, A Large Inscription, A Great Noise, 2019. Photo by Paul Litherand Adam Basanta, A Continue Reading
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