Conceptualized for brand-conscious societies, Andre constructs complex witty tableaux as desirable as the products they parody. A major portion of Singapore pop artist Andre Tan‘s output riffs on the logos of international brands like HERMÈS, CHANEL, LOUIS VUITTON,...
“Night Falls”, a solo exhibition by Chen Wei at Ota Fine Arts Singapore showcases an installation work comprising of ten LED light boards that are positioned across the gallery space. Various color patterns appear on each LED board: every spark of light is...
LOS Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby has created ‘SPECTER’ — a neon orange monolith which appears as an apparent on in the desert. In realizing the composition of the artwork, Ruby wanted to create an optical illusion, as though something had been erased from the...
Susan Hiller, 78, Maker of Dreamlike Conceptual Art, Dies – The New York Times Susan Hiller, 78, Maker of Dreamlike Conceptual Art, Dies Feb. 1, 2019 In Susan Hiller’s installation “Channels” (2013), disembodied voices come from a wall of more than 100...
Bruce Nauman’s “Human Nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn’t Know,” from 1983. Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Video by Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention, lets us see with clarity where the artist stands and why he is pertinent to our wrenching moment. If art isn’t about life and death, and the emotions and ethics that surround them, what is it about? Style? Taste? Auction results?...
Neon warrior Jenny Holzer on America today. From school shootings to #MeToo and outrage at Trump, Jenny Holzer has spent her life battling injustice. As the Tate focuses on eight pivotal moments, the artist looks back at an eventful career Jenny Holzer, now the...
“teamLab: Dance! Art Exhibition, Learn & Play! Future Park” is a large-scale exhibition that is designed to stimulate people’s creativity and collaborative minds with a form of Future Park. Combining art exhibitions and futuristic amusement park, this exhibition...
Nicolas Jaar Surprise-Released a New Album as “Against All Logic” Last Week FYF Fest 2017 – Day 2 Nicolas Jaar’s latest official release was 2016’s Sirens, an ambitious and often song-oriented album that incorporated elements of avant-garde classical music and...
Joseph Kosuth, the American conceptual artist has plenty of stories to tell – but when it comes to the meaning of art, he’s serious. Joseph Kosuth’s Self-Defined Object (Orange), 1966. Photograph: Zan Wimberley/Joseph Kosuth and Anna Schwartz Gallery Joseph Kosuth was...
You don’t really need to be an enigma once Beyoncé has introduced you to the world, but Boots doesn’t care about mystery as a gimmick. After all, his real name and appearance are out in the open. Born Jordan Asher, the 28-year-old songwriter got his break when Beyoncé...
Marfa, TX. Donald Judd’s 15 untitled works in concrete were the first to be installed at the museum. The twenty-five centimeter thick concrete slabs from which the works were constructed were poured, fabricated and assembled on site – the open field on the eastern...
Steven Spielberg debuted footage from “Ready Player One” at San Diego Comic-Con. The new video features characters from “Lord of the Rings,” “Back to the Future,” “Iron Giant,” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” while introducing fans to protagonist Parzival, played by Tye...
The artist imagines the dancefloors where rebels, thinkers and creatives got together. “While they were once the realm of intellectuals and artists as a place to exchange ideas, nightclubs are no longer radical spaces,” says Chen Wei of the scene in China. Such...
Keep IT Alive is an exhibition of Alan Vega’s final work, a suite of haunting large-scale paintings he had completed just before his death in July, 2016. Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Vega is known first as one-half of the groundbreaking electro-punk duo Suicide, which...
Kowloon Walled City was a largely-ungoverned densely-populated settlement in Kowloon City in Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the Walled City became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to Britain by China in 1898. Its population increased...
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, and the Los Angeles uprising,[1] were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that...
