Charlie Porter’s new book
What Artists Wear does what it says on the tin. But peel back the lid and you’re taken through a roving, intimate analysis of the clothes that inform art. “It’s all there,” Porter tells AnOther on the morning of the book’s publication. “It’s all there in this art which is the language of clothing – this language we all engage with, all the time. That’s why it’s so powerful, because we’re all aware of it. And artists use our language, the language of clothing, to send us messages in their work.”
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Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-Hee. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images.
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Only Five Percent of L.A. Board Members Are Black – A 2017 survey of 800 museums conducted by the American Alliance of Museums found that 89 percent of museum board members in the U.S. identified as white. One year after the Black Lives Matter movement reignited in 2020, the
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image captionThe Array Collective at Pride 2019 (left) and Project Art Works Siddharth Gadiyar at the Phoenix Art Space
The 2021 Turner Prize nominees are, for the first time, made up of collectives who have helped to inspire social change through art , organisers say.
Exhibitions have been largely closed over the past year due to the pandemic.
With that in mind, Friday s shortlist contained the names of five groups who continued to work in the community.
Prize chair and Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson said it is intended to capture and reflect the mood of the moment in contemporary British art.
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Artist Tai Shani was born in London in 1976, grew up in Goa, and has lived in Brussels, New York and Florence. She began her career in fashion photography before turning to video art, immersive installations, performance and sculpture. In 2019 she was jointly awarded the Turner prize with the three other shortlisted artists. Shani is co-founder and co-curator of digital film channel Transmissions, and is a tutor in critical practice at the Royal College of Art. Her new work,
The Neon Hieroglyph, for Manchester international festivalâs digital series Virtual Factory, is available online at virtual-factory.co.uk.