Article Archive for December 2009
Columbian artist Doris Salcedo talks about the themes and ideas explored by her work Shibboleth – a huge crack produced in the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2008:
“The presence of the …
In conjunction with the exhibition Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses her work and its feminist themes.
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Artist Kehinde Wiley speaks about his work on Bloomburg’s arts programme, Muse:
“My work isn’t necessarily driven by a desire to create a corrective, but I think a corrective is ultimately what comes out of it. …
A panoramic view the exhibit Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art by Professor Gretchen Sorin at the Fenimore Art Museum, in Cooperstown, New York.
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Speaking as part of the Yale University spring history course on The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, Professor David Blight presents a lecture titled: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
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Professor Jack Flam (City University, New York) gives a lecture on African Art and Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conjunction with the exhibition: Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary …
Take a look at the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, installing his work, ‘Between Heaven and Earth’ in the African galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
“I think beauty …
