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Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, to initiate the exhibition 'Lynloop' by Igshaan Adams
BOSTON, MA.- On February 13, 2024, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is unveiling a monumental, site-specific commission by multidisciplinary artist Igshaan Adams (born 1982 in Cape Town, South Africa), entitled Lynloop [Toeing the Line], organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. Adamss woven tapestries point to the interconnectedness of the artists spirituality, familial histories, and local community narratives as rooted in his South African heritage. Drawing on the notion of desire linespaths created by pedestrians over time that fall outside of sanctioned walkwaysAdams visualizes the everyday movements of people through a range of tactile materials to contest fixed boundaries. At the ICA, Adams has transformed the first-floor lobbys Sandra and Gerald Fineberg ... More

'Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen' Norway opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- For centuries, Bergen, one of the largest port cities in Scandinavia, was a thriving hub of global commerce, with a burgeoning export of fish, timber and fur. That trade in turn spurred the development of a uniquely Norwegian approach to a timeless craft: gold and silver smithing. The exhibition Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway explores the art of the Bergen silversmiths from the 16th to early 20th centuries, and examines the evolution of the craft against the backdrop of greater political, social, and economic change in Norway and other parts of the world. Some 200 objects from spoons, tankards, sugar bowls and salt cellars to elaborate ceremonial wedding crowns and fantastical vessels are on exclusive loan to the U.S. from public and private Norwegian collections. Crowning the North: Silver ... More

An exploration of evolving concepts through historic, modern, and contemporary at at the Montclair Art Museum
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum is thrilled to present its latest exhibition, Family, Community, Belonging: Works from the Collection. This unique collection-based exhibition delves into the ever-evolving notions of family and community, and explores themes of belonging, diversity, and inclusion through a diverse array of artworks. Featuring a selection of historic, modern, and contemporary works, the exhibition aims to showcase the rich tapestry of American culture, emphasizing the individual and collective experiences shared across lines of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The works range from nineteenth-century portraits of European American mothers with children, providing a glimpse ... More

Hammer Museum presents premiere of 'Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s –1970s'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA has now opened Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s1970s, a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to Korean Experimental art (silheom misul) and its artists, whose radical approach to materials and process produced some of the most significant avant-garde practices of the twentieth century. The Hammer Museums presentation, on view since February 11 and continuing through to May 12, 2024, is the exhibitions first and only venue on the West Coast. Prior to the Hammer, the exhibition debuted at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (May 26July 16, 2023) and traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 1, 2023January 7, 2024). Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, said, We are tremendously ... More

'Kill B.' review: Dances of dominance
NEW YORK, NY.- Dancer Mia Zalukar lay collapsed on the stage of NYU Skirball, seemingly exhausted after a long solo but she wasnt doing it quite right. When you fall, you should be more like a dead person, her collaborator, Bruno Isakovic, interjected, instructing her to look like less like a worm on the floor. She adjusted an arm to make the pose more mangled, almost cartoonishly dramatic. Isakovic approved. This is one of many such exchanges in Kill B., a 2019 work by Isakovic and Zalukar that had its United States premiere Friday evening as part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival. Organized by Croatian curator Zvonimir Dobrovic, the festival features artists from Croatia, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Germany exploring what it is to be outside of the norm, Dobrovic said in a curtain speech. He stressed ... More

At 73, Australia's most important Aboriginal writer is making her mark
MELBOURNE.- Long before Alexis Wright was a towering figure in Australian letters, she took notes during community meetings in remote outback towns. Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand. The work was laborious, and it soothed her youthful fervor for the change that seemed all too slow to arrive. It was good training, in a way, she said in a recent interview at a public library close to the University of Melbourne, where until 2022 she held the role of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature. They were teaching you to listen, and they were teaching you patience. Wright, 73, is arguably the most important Aboriginal Australian or simply Australian writer alive today. She is the author of epic, polyphonic novels that reveal the patience, perseverance and careful observation she ... More

How do you get acoustic instruments to play electronic music?
NEW YORK, NY.- If you start at the middle C of a piano and strike every key on your way up to the next C on the keyboard, you will play each of the 12 notes that make up an octave. Those 12 semitones are the foundation of most Western music. But what if they were not? What if that same octave were equally divided into 14 tones, or 16? What if Beethoven had written the Eroica Symphony with a scale of 19 notes, or Schoenberg had written tone rows with 23? What would their music sound like? Those were the questions that composer Easley Blackwood Jr., a pillar of the Chicago new music community who died last year, asked in his Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media (1979-80). Composed for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, each of Blackwoods Etudes shows off the qualities ... More

Exhibition brings to light the core motifs of Jim Shaw's practice
ANTWERP.- The M HKA presents a major solo exhibition featuring one of the most influential artists in the United States: Jim Shaw. His idiosyncratic imagery is infused with references from popular American culture. In recent decades, his body of work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The Ties That Bind brings to light the core motifs of Shaw's practice, presenting his latest work alongside a selection of earlier works. Since the late 1970s, Jim Shaw has been developing a complex and exciting body of work that includes photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, films, and musical performances. Popular cultural formats such as comics, Hollywood films and caricatures constitute an essential part of his work, as do religion, folk beliefs, leisure culture and amateur ... More