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Category Archives: Contemporary Art

1. English Magic

   “English Magic” by Jeremy Deller, at the Venice Biennale, avoids taking a stand, but entertains us in the process.

   This entry was posted on November 4, 2013 and is filed under art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: "Venice Biennale 2013", Andy Warhol, hen harrier hawk, Jeremy Deller, William Morris

2. Obsessions in Venice

   Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale

   This entry was posted on November 2, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale.

   Tags: "The Encyclopedic Palace" Il Palazzo Encyclopeida, "Venice Biennale 2013", Arthur Bispo de Rosario, Carl Jung, Danh Vo, Genesis, J.D.Okhai Ojeikere, Jack Whitten, Marino Auriti, Massimiliano Gioni, Robert Crumb, Roberto Cuoghi, Ron Nagle, Rosalio Biscotti, Tino Seghal

3. Under my Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century

   Under My Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century at the Wing Luke Museum includes a stimulating and poetic group of worksby 26 artists in many media. IT is not to be missed and more than one visit is neciessary.

   This entry was posted on June 16, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, indians, Racism, Uncategorized.

   Tags: Canh Nguyen, Darius Morrison, Erin Genia, Fumi Matsumoto, Inye Wokoma, Jasmine Iona Brown, Kathleen McHugh, Kathy Budway, Laura Kina, Mary Coss, Minh Carrico, Naima Lowe, Polly Purvis, Ronald Hall, Stefani Thornton, Tatiana Garmendia

4. Contemporary Art and Archeology in the Middle East: Crying Caryatids, Flooded Histories, Graffiti, and Puppet Shows

   From flooded sites in Turkey to cartoons in Syria, a look at someaspects of culture in the midst of the political and economic earthquakes in Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Syria.

   This entry was posted on February 23, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art in War, Contemporary Art.

   Tags: Ali Ferzhat, art of the uprisings in Libya, Benjamin Anderson, Christiane Gruber, contemporary Middle East, dissident culture in Syria, Egyptian graffiti, Gaddafi as "King of Kings", Ganzeer, Hazankeyf, Jennifer Pruitt, Laurent Dissard, Middle East graffiti, miriam cooke, Qays al-Hilali

5. “New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+the World” A Symposium in Seattle

   New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+ the World raises important questions about feminism today and presented some crucial artists.

   This entry was posted on December 21, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized.

   Tags: China, feminism, Feminist Art, Hung Liu, India, Navjot, new geographies of feminist art, Nilima Sheikh, Sasha Welland, Sonar Khullar, Wu Mali

6. Women Artists in Seattle Part II

   Women Photographers with roots in South Asia and Afghanistan show challenging work about cultural contradictions and Tanis S’eiltin, Tlinglit installation artist challenges fixed ideas on Indigenous culture.

   This entry was posted on December 20, 2012 and is filed under art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, democracy, Feminism, Feminism, Gazelle Samizay, indians, Iran, Iranian Women, Photography, Women Artists.

   Tags: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Contemporary Photography from South Asia, feminism, Gazelle Samizay, Manjari, Priya Kambla, Shadi Gadirian, Tanis S'eiltin, Tlinglit Artist, Women Artists

7. “Elles” and Beyond: Women Artists Take on the World

   Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.

   This entry was posted on November 25, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Iranian Women, Israel Palestine, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Seattle Art, Seattle Art Museum, Shirin Neshat, Uncategorized.

   Tags: "Elles, "Pompidou Center, "Touba", Adrian Piper, Bauhuas, Christa Bell, Dorothea Tanning, Florence Henri, Paris in the 20s and 30s, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Shirin Neshat, Sonia Terk-Delaunay, Suzanne Valadon, Yayoi Kusama

8. Sonic Time: Speech Sound Silence at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

   Classic conceptual art, Greek contemporary Conceptual Art and their shared concerns.

   This entry was posted on October 31, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art.

   Tags: Ana Kafetsi, Antarctica, Bia Davou, Bruce Nauman, Chryssa, climate change, Conceptual art, Danae Statou, Gary Hill, Greek Conceptual art, John Cage, Lawrence Weiner, Makis Faros, Sol Le Witt

9. Negar Farajiani Puzzles of Meanings

   Contemporary Art from Iran in Seattle, Nagar Farjiani as cultural peacemaker

   This entry was posted on October 25, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: Iran, Negar Farajiani

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