I last visited an art gallery on 25 February 2020, more than a year ago. In that time I’ve looked through all of my photobooks, re-hung my limited selection of reproductions and posters and gaffa-taped a banana to my wall, but none of these have replicated visiting an actual gallery.
Luckily the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has a solution for me – and for anyone feeling deprived of art. The ‘Do it’ initiative he started in 1993 along with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier has been expanded for lockdown times, with more artists adding to the project. Each artist’s contribution takes the form of a set of instructions, some more conceptual (Virgil Abloh’s asks us to ‘Understand the nature of man’), some more concrete (Thao Nguyen Phan asks us to ‘Dig a hole, plant a seed’). These instructions are published on the Serpentine Galleries’ Twitter page and through a site on Google Arts & Culture. Stuck at home during the third UK national lockdown, I d
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A creative mind can never be bound by geographical limitations or constraints of any kind. Here are five artists who have treaded unique creative paths, tweaked the rules of their respective fields and made a global impact.
Jitish Kallat (Artist)Â
Amid the artistic achievements of late icons like M.F. Husain, S.H Raza, F.N Souza, Tyeb Mehta and Akbar Padamsee, it is hard for any contemporary artist to carve a niche. Especially when giants like Atul Dodiya, Bharti Kher and Ravinder Reddy have already imprinted global art markets with their genius. Yet, Jitish Kallat has seen a meteoric rise as an artist of international stature by selling his paintings, collages, sculptures and multimedia works for jaw-dropping amounts. His artistic sensibility draws from his immediate environs but has a universal appeal. He has exhibited his large-scale site-specific LED installations at the Art Institute of Chicago and his work
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Faith Ringgold, The Flag Is Bleeding #2 (American Collection #6), 1997. Image courtesy of the Glenstone Museum.
Now Glenstone fans have more to look forward to: When the museum opens its indoor section again this spring, it will feature a major exhibit on the American artist Faith Ringgold. Glenstone will be the only American stop on the two-year tour of Ringgold’s works, which was organized by Serpentine Galleries in London. The exhibit was previously featured at Serpentine and the Bildmuseet museum in Umeå, Sweden. It will be Glenstone’s first time hosting a touring exhibit.
The 90-year-old Ringgold was born in Harlem, and her mediums include painting, soft sculpture, performance art, mixed media, and quilting. A social and political activist, Ringgold has focused much of her work on issues of politics and race. Glenstone’s exhibit of 70-plus pieces will stretch from Ringgold’s early days, when she created political posters during the 1960s civil rights protes
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Singing, dancing, and spreading the love. Messages of hope and joy from around the world celebrate 50 years of BMW Group’s cultural engagement.
Mon Mar 01 10:00:00 CET 2021 Press Release
From Ólafur Elíasson, Cao Fei and Stefan Sagmeister to Jonas Kaufmann, Sir Simon Rattle, the Munich Philharmonic and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to Esther Mahlangu and Victoria Siddall. The BMW Group is receiving manifold congratulatory messages from the international cultural world these days, all of them reflecting its long-term and diverse cultural commitment.
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Munich. From Ólafur Elíasson, Cao Fei and Stefan Sagmeister to Jonas Kaufmann, Sir Simon Rattle, the Munich