Category: Curating
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“Senses of Time”: an exhibition co-organized by LACMA and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (2016-17)
“Senses of Time” is a series of films and video-based contemporary artworks by six artists from the global African diasporas. In each case the contributors invite their audiences to consider the various tensions, contradictions and ambiguities that can exist between personal and political time, ritual and technological time, and corporeal and mechanical temporalities. The following six film and…
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Thin Black Lines: marking time – on faces, within networks, and in exhibition spaces…
As I stood in front of Jelena Bulajic’s large-scale portrait of Alise Lange (2013) mesmerised by the network of fine wrinkles covering her face, my momentary thoughts merged with memories of another contemporary artwork that came back to mind in sharp focus – the image of Lubaina Himid’s topological art map, Thin Black Line(s) (2011). In Bulajic’s work, her mixed-media artistic cartography of facial lines…
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El Hadji Sy’s ‘alchemy of assemblages’ at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt
Earlier this month I went to Germany to undertake gallery-based research at the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt and spent time reviewing the temporary exhibition, El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics (5 March-10 October, 2015). This detailed retrospective about the life and work of internationally renowned Senegalese artist-curator and activist El Hadji Sy…
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Contemporary Art Conversations: “In the Heart of the Lights,” by curator Simon Njami
Curator, writer and art critic Simon Njami will be giving a keynote lecture on 17th February 2015 to launch a series of events at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry to accompany his current exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 – A Commemoration of the Berlin Congo Conference (on display at SAVVY Contemporary in…
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The inaugural issue of Stedelijk Studies – “Collecting Geographies: Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art”
Please see below a link to the first issue of the new peer-reviewed academic journal Stedelijk Studies, which publishes research related to the Stedelijk Museum collection in Amsterdam, its institutional history, wider museum and gallery studies, and other topical issues in the field of visual arts and design. The inaugural issue – titled, “Collecting Geographies: Global Programming…
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