Category Archives: Art and Politics Now
-
Nalini Malani at the National Gallery London “My Reality is Different”
Nalini Malani’s immersive animated installation at the National Gallery London plunges us into a world of bizarre figures, creatures, and energy waves that swirl and constantly change shape as they invade the complacency of the people in famous European paintings, bit by bit . Nalini Malini (That’s a clip from the installation. […]
This entry was posted on May 27, 2023 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Humaira Abid: Confronting Women’s Oppressions
Women’s rights are front and center as Iran erupts in anger at its oppressive extremely conservative government after Mahsa Amini a young woman died from being beaten by the so-called morality police. Two 16 year old girls Sarina Esmailzadeh and Nika Shakrami, have also died in the protests. In this country, the repeal of Roe […]
This entry was posted on October 17, 2022 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Feminism, Iran, Iranian protests, Iranian Women, Uncategorized. -
Embodied Change: South Asian Art Across Time at the Asian Art Museum
Natalia Di Pietranto, the new Assistant Curator of South Asian Art at the Seattle Art Museum explains her first exhibition “Embodied Change, Asian Art Across Time” as follows “I wanted to . . . explore how the body is a site of both personal intimacy and possibility for change. . . I hope that […]
This entry was posted on March 26, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Michelle Kumata
this article originally appeared in a shorter version here http://www.artaccess.com/articles/12634620 Bonfire Gallery “Michelle Kumata: Regeneration” to March 26 We are compelled to enter “Regeneration,” Michelle Kumata’s exhibition at the Bonfire Gallery by the banners in the gallery windows. In the exhibition, Kumata is addressing the difficult subject of the long term […]
This entry was posted on March 8, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Asian American Art, Uncategorized. -
Two Murals in Women’s Prisons: Lucienne Bloch and Faith Ringgold
Thinking about murals in women’s prisons
This entry was posted on January 20, 2022 and is filed under Art and Politics Now. -
Carrie Mae Weems The Shape of Things
Carrie Mae Weems the Shape 0f Things
This entry was posted on January 5, 2022 and is filed under African American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Subversion: The Art of Slavery Abolitionism
Subersion and the Art of Slavery Abololition is an astonishing work of research and provocative ideas.
This entry was posted on January 2, 2022 and is filed under Abolitionism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Morgan Peterson on Greed, Power, Control and Murder
“Born of our Culture: American Excess” a recent installation at Method Gallery by Morgan Peterson tells it like it is in our contemporary moment. Morgan Petersen has long been fascinated by true crime and the amplifying role that media plays in our culture starting with the 1969 Charles Manson murders My fascination […]
This entry was posted on December 3, 2021 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth ‘Mumbet’ Freeman
Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth Mumbet Freedom at the new MassArtArt Museum
This entry was posted on November 11, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Firelei Báez, To breathe full and free
Pamela Allara, Ph.D., my colleague in art history and all things, contributed this post about a stunning exhibition in Boston. Firelei Báez’s installation, “To Breathe Full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction…” at the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Watershed gallery was one of the most exciting exhibitions that the ICA has mounted […]
This entry was posted on September 18, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Defusing Radical Alice Neel
Observe these two portraits On the right is the feature image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art current exhibition of the work of Alice Neel “People Come First” It is identified as a portrait of “Elenka”1936, about which there is no information except that she “presumably numbered among the several bohemians with […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Grief and Grievance at the New Museum in New York
Grief and Grievance at the New Museum demonstrates the many ways that artist can address grief while collectively suggesting grievance, the resistance to injustice.
This entry was posted on July 8, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Breathe! at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and several provocative new shows at the Henry Art Gallery
Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery
This entry was posted on April 14, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Port Townsend marks its history with Indigenous groups
Port Townsend reveals its Indigenous History
This entry was posted on April 6, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, ecology, Indigenous History, Uncategorized. -
Selma Waldman More Important Than Ever in 2021
“Lust for power and territory is the same lust that kills man, women, children and the land itself” Selma Waldman 2002 What would Seattle’s deeply political artist Selma Waldman think of our current catastrophes? On a bitter winter day in January 2008, I accompanied Selma Waldman to the last demonstration that she attended […]
This entry was posted on February 26, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Iran US Collaboration: Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems
“Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems” This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition here […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Art in War, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Marela Zacarias at Mad Art brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco
In case you are yearning for a trip to get away from our crazy election or now to celebrate it, go to Mad Art (325 Westlake Avenue N, open Thurs, Fri, Sat noon to 5 and by appointment necessary) Marela Zacarías brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco, a Mesoamerican […]
This entry was posted on November 6, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Na Chainkua Reindorf
Ghanian artist Na Chainkua Reindorf is showing at the Specialist Gallery (until November 21, by appointment) a series of seven stunning works, with the title “Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things” The artist is inviting us to meet members of an imaginary secret society. This is the first phase of a long term […]
This entry was posted on October 25, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Suffering
The Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) WHAT STORY WOULD THE UNINTENDED BENEFICIARIES TELL (WSWUBT), which closes in two days, is a wonderful small selection of artists addressing the suffrage amendment and who was left out. The artists include Carletta Carrington Wilson with a selection from her incredible Letter to a Laundress series that I have […]
This entry was posted on October 22, 2020 and is filed under African American history, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black Art, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Take a Stand: Art Against Hate: The New Raven Anthology
Raven Chronicles Press, for those not familiar with this important Seattle-based literary project, began in 1991. The amazing Phoebe Bosché has been the editor of Raven Chronicles Press and published a regular magazine for many years, but she now focuses on anthologies. These provocative collections of visual art, poetry, fiction, and […]
This entry was posted on October 4, 2020 and is filed under Art and Politics Now. -
South African superstar photographer Zanele Muholi at the Seattle Art Museum
Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness South African superstar artist Zanele Muholi bursts out of the Jacob Lawrence and Gwen Knight corner gallery at the Seattle Art Museum: “I’m reclaiming my blackness.” Their exhibition “Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness,” spills into four adjoining spaces. First, we see the huge signature self-portrait […]
This entry was posted on September 23, 2019 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Charles White: Humanist
The huge mural by Charles White, “5 great American Negroes” overwhelms us before we even enter the Charles White retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In this first mural Charles White created for the government sponsored WPA mural program, Sojourner Truth leads a march of freed slaves […]
This entry was posted on October 29, 2018 and is filed under African American history, American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “letter to a laundress”
Carletta Carrington Wilson addresses her “letter to a laundress” to her great great grandmother, but her profound photo/poem installation currently on view at the Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma (only until September 29) honors the work of all those who, in her words, “took in wash.” She found photographs of anonymous […]
This entry was posted on September 7, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, American Art, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Civil War, ecology, Uncategorized. -
“In the Fields of Empty Days: Intersections of Past and Present in Iranian Art,”
“In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art” at The Los Angeles County Museum is a show on a crucial topic. Although much of the work is contemporary, note that the title does not say that. Tirafkan’s image speaks volumes of the intersection of past and present that […]
This entry was posted on June 25, 2018 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Iran, Iranian protests, Iranian Women, Uncategorized. -
Migration Then and Now: A European and UK Perspective
Migration from a European perspective including the Migration Museum, London, Arabella Dorman’s installation and Ai Wei Wei’s film human flow
This entry was posted on January 16, 2018 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Migration, Uncategorized.
