Art

BERLIN — At the opening reception of her career retrospective This Will Not End Well at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie on November 22, Nan Goldin delivered a speech that reverberated across the world. “Why can’t I speak, Germany?” she asked, denouncing the country’s silencing of criticism against Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. Goldin began her speech with several minutes of silence in …

A selection of oil paintings by Dallas-based artist Jessica Vollrath. Born to an African American father and Mexican mother, Vollrath discovered her love of painting around the age of 8 and spent her free time exploring with the various art supplies her mother found at garage sales. She met the late Dr. Marilyn Daniels at the age of 15 at …

“We might call that a cold case, right? There’s no evidence, there’s no murder weapon… It’s a crime scene, but the culprit—the criminal—has left.” Biologist Karen Lips’s opening words in the 2023 animated short film, “The Waiting,” portend a mystery with far-reaching implications. Directed by Volker Schlecht and written by Alexander Lahl and Max Mönch, the award-winning film traces the …

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s first solo exhibition in Belgium brings together new and existing works in a gentle, titillating, and sharp installation, specially created for the former anatomical theatre of KIOSK. The building housing KIOSK was once home to the Clinical and Outpatient Institute, where students could witness dissections of human bodies. Hansen’s Untitled (Anatomical Venus) addresses the history of dissection …

An exhibition space at an Austrian contemporary art museum was damaged on Saturday, December 7, in an apparent act of vandalism targeting a feminist art installation by Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the Russian activist and performance art group Pussy Riot. The installation, a set of balaclava-clad red mannequins in punk platform black boots titled “Pussy Riot Sex Dolls,” is …

Behind barred motifs evocative of a wrought iron fence, otherworldly flowers are in full bloom, their heads stretching wide and tall while tendrils and leafy vines wind around the open barriers. Rendered in contrasting palettes of jewel tones and pale, muted hues, these uncanny plants are part of the latest body of work by Mevlana Lipp. While visiting Venice earlier …

The exhibition, entitled “The Archaeology of Beasts,” presents four new works by the artist, including two sculptures, an immersive video installation and a Virtual Reality experience. Internationally renowned artist Monira Al Qadiri is known for her playful yet subversive take on the Gulf region’s fading cultural histories, changing topographies and ecosystems, caused by the extractivist activities of the Petrostate nations.  …

A wave of anti-Palestinian repression has swept the Western art world in the aftermath of October 7th, 2023. From Amsterdam to San Francisco, artists who have criticized Israel’s brutal war on Gaza have seen their exhibitions canceled, their work deinstalled, and other opportunities rescinded. Some of these incidents have been met with major backlash: After Vail, Colorado disinvited Native artist …

A survey of personal memories taken in Mesa, Arizona and the surrounding areas by Los Angeles-based photographer and director Chris McPherson. Despite a career spanning two highly successful decades, McPherson found himself taking a step back in the fall of 2017. Avoiding commercial work, which he realized had become a way of distracting himself from facing his inner dissatisfaction, McPherson …

Aman Khanna’s symbolic ceramic sculptures, referred to as Claymen, are hand-crafted in New Delhi by the artist and a team of assistants. With emotive faces and an approachable aura, the figures evoke the human condition, non-binding to any gender and representing the universal act of introspection. Refined and unembellished heads are a recurring motif within Khanna’s work. “I have always …