This urgent new show from choreographer Brendan Fernandes asks us to find the power to stand up
The renowned dance artist s latest work was inspired by current social uprisings and the Pulse nightclub shooting.
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The renowned artist s latest work was inspired by current social uprisings and the Pulse nightclub shooting
Posted: Feb 17, 2021 11:30 AM ET | Last Updated: February 17
Brendan Fernandes s Free Fall: for Camera, 2019, video still. (Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche, Chicago. )
Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens. This is the first time I m making an exhibition and I m not there, renowned Canadian choreographer and artist Brendan Fernandes says of his installation
A New Era for a Modern Museum: The Guggenheim Names Naomi Beckwith Its New Deputy Director and Chief Curator
Photo: Nathan Keay for MCA Chicago, Heather Shimmin (Shutterstock)
For 84 years, New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has represented the vanguard of modern art, an early champion of artists today, its nautilus shell-inspired structure houses artworks from generations of the world’s most visionary and experimental artists. Yet like many fine arts museums, for decades, the Guggenheim’s iconic spiral of galleries have proved a primarily Eurocentric domain in both artists and infrastructure.
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As such, the museum made headlines in 2019 when (
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