American artist Jill Magid premieres a new body of work commissioned by M Leuven; M will present several groups of work by Leen Voet from the last 15 years of her practise.
ON A FRIDAY NIGHT in August 2019, Mexico City’s Angel of Independence received a makeover. The statue, long a meeting place for football fans and political protesters alike, was covered in neon-pink, green, and purple graffiti. Before, the inscription on the base of the bronze statue of a child and lion who symbolize, according to the architect Antonia Rivas Mercado, “the Mexican people, strong during war and docile during peace” read, La nación a los héroes de la independencia (The Nation to the Heroes of Independence). The black spray paint that occluded the inscription in August 2019 reads,
Ruby City announces the acquisition of Once Again…(Statues Never Die), 2022, a new five-screen film installation by the acclaimed filmmaker and artist Sir Isaac Julien, OBE. In .