Eliciting both laughs and a police investigation, a tableau of toys in Barnaul, Siberia stands in for a more traditional protest of the upcoming parliamentary elections. According to The Guardian, Andrei Mulintsev, the city’s deputy police chief, said “Political opposition forces are using new technologies to carry out public events – using toys [...]
Dedicated to the workers and unemployed, a major retrospective of controversial artist Santiago Sierra opens today at London’s Lisson Gallery. Addressing situations of exploitation and marginalisation, Sierra’s work can be seen as provocative and often sparks controversy, especially those in which underprivileged individuals are paid for performing degrading or uncomfortable actions. Drug addicted prostitutes received the price of [...]
Provisions is featured in a new article on GMU’s website today. Please come for a visit to see the new space and meet our growing community of colleagues and friends.
“In this socially and politically charged world in which we live, art has the potential to challenge some of society’s deepest assumptions. Driven by [...]
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, in collaboration with MIT List Visual Arts Center presents the first ever survey of Chilean-born video artist Juan Downey (1940-1993). Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect is organized by Valerie Smith, Curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. The exhibition will show at the Bronx Museum of [...]
Yesterday, Yu Jie, writer, dissident and authorized biographer of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, gave a statement at the National Press Club. He had just left Beijing on January 11th, having been under house arrest since October 2010, following the announcement of Liu Xiabo’s Nobel peace prize award. Yu Jie has served [...]
