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Monumenta 2011 May 11- June 23 Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally renowned contemporary artist to appropriate the 13,500 m² of the Grand Palais Nave with an artwork specially created for the event. This year the Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor was invited to create “Leviathan”, an aesthetic and physical shock, an experience of colour [...]
Official Website: www.ps1.org December 12, 2010 – April 4, 2011 In recent years, television’s reality shows and talent competitions have offered people a conflicted chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-based social media have pioneered new forms of communication that people increasingly use to perform their private lives as public theater. During the same [...]
Originally conceived by the artist in 1991 as a site-specific installation for the Spoleto Festival held in Charleston, South Carolina, indigo blue was inspired by the region’s history of indigo production. Both a plant and a dye, indigo is inextricably bound to the South plantation economy. Hamilton’s interest in the history of American labor was [...]
Official Website: www.mocataipei.org.tw 10/22/2010 to 12/12/2010 India is one of the four ancient civilizations, and is known for its long history and affluent cultural heritage. Contemporary Indian art demonstrates an alternative direction in raising criticism of one’s own country’s social reality and controversial issues including class system, the wealth gap and political agendas. This exhibition [...]
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin November 5, 2010 through February 6, 2011 Carsten Höller. Soma Belgian artist Carsten Höller has turned a contemporary art museum in Berlin into a zoo! 24 canaries, 12 reindeers, eight mice and two flies, are what visitors to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art [...]
Tate Modern 12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011 Official Website: www.tate.org.uk Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds challenges our first impressions: what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means. The sculptural installation is made up of what appear to be millions of sunflower seed husks, apparently identical [...]
Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While [...]
Guggenheim Museum, New York Part I: March 26–September 6, 2010 Part II: June 4–September 1, 2010 Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject [...]
John Waters is an American filmmaker well known for his provocative movies – among them Pink Flamingos (1972), Hairspray (1988), and, A Dirty Shame (2004). Recently I discovered his contemporary art work and I was fascinated with his sense of humor and clever concepts.
Chris Burden The Heart: Open or Closed February 13 – March 27, 2010 Gagosian Gallery Burden continues his interest in built structures and the role they play in reflecting cultures. In three individual but interrelated works, he turns his attention to the beauty and metaphorical possibilities of the architectural folly. At one end of the [...]
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