This year's Focus surveys
contemporary artistic production from African viewpoints.
The collection contains a variety of media and a diversity of
contemporary artistic production from many of Washington's notable artists, as well as from nationally and internationally recognized artists.
«We feel that by approaching us in particular, The Armory Show shows a deep sensitivity and understanding toward the complexities of
contemporary artistic productions from Africa and the Diaspora.»
Not exact matches
Explore how observation of animal behavior influenced religious belief,
artistic production, and daily life
from ancient America to
contemporary Africa in this three - day workshop for teachers on June 5 - 7.
Moving beyond conventional ideas of the African continent and its «counterpart», «the Western hemisphere,» this year's Focus will provide a glimpse of international
artistic production from contemporary African viewpoints: emerging curators, artists, galleries and art spaces that connect scenes and markets through global networks.
«It's the perfect moment to revisit Rauschenberg's career, given that his impact continues to gain momentum as more and more
contemporary artists pay homage to, and are influenced by, various facets of his creative practice and
artistic production —
from his technology - based artworks and the reuse of images to international collaborations that demonstrated the power of art to spark dialogues between various cultures,» stated Christy MacLear, CEO of the Rauschenberg Foundation.
Featuring detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects
from The Met collection, The Theater of Disappearance encompasses thousands of years of
artistic production over several continents and cultures, and fuses them with facsimiles of
contemporary human figures as well as furniture, animals, cutlery, and food.
Her curatorial work focuses on
artistic production from the neo avant - garde until today, particularly rooted in global art histories, the intersections of sound and performance with traditional media, and the function of
contemporary art within encyclopedic museums.
Over the past fifty years performance art has shifted
from being a fledgling
artistic practice grounded in the immediacy of the live body, to an increasingly popular medium of
contemporary art, engaging large numbers of performers, high
production values and rising audience numbers.
More than twenty
contemporary artists
from home and abroad examine the importance of systems of order such as cartography, archival structures and scientific systematizations for today's
artistic production.
It also includes a two - day symposium (March 5 - 6) examining the diverse practices of artists, curators and collectors
from Africa and the Diaspora through a series of panel discussions and video screenings, looking at new global phenomena in
contemporary artistic production.
Responding to the current climate of art fairs in regard to
artistic production and reception, Paris Internationale is a joint initiative
from five emerging galleries — Crèvecoeur, High Art, Antoine Levi, Sultana and Gregor Staiger — as a collective attempt to develop an appropriate model for fostering new advanced initiatives in
contemporary art.
Her work is focused on examining the relationship between art infrastructure and
artistic production, urbanity, cultural politics of food and art, and
contemporary art
from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Studying the initial Westernization of the Ottoman Empire through to the early Republican period, Repertoire reveals the reverberations of historic processes in today's
artistic productions and provides the historical backdrop to the Modern and
contemporary artworks in the exhibition —
from the musical tones of the abstract art of the 1950s to the popularized content of the 1980s.
This separation between African artists who have either lived or travelled to European countries throughout their working lives and the bitter past history of this vast continent is what renders the
artistic production of both older and younger artists absolutely crucial to the social dynamics of the
contemporary age as an overwhelming sense of wisdom emanates
from even the youngest artists included in the fair.
Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia
from the Collection of the Museum of
Contemporary Art, a splendid historical exhibition which shed light on the remarkable
artistic production of the Balkans.
Holding both a MFA
from Hunter College and a PhD in Physics
from Harvard, Smith's work plays off of
contemporary trends in a clever way, highlighting technology's effect on all aspects of
artistic production.