Outlooks: Brandon Ndife at Storm King Art Center
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Outlooks: Brandon Ndife at Storm King Art Center

May 21 – November 7, 2022 For the ninth iteration of Outlooks, Storm King Art Center presents the work of New York–based artist Brandon Ndife (b. 1991). The Outlooks program offers an emerging to mid-career artist the chance to present a large-scale, temporary outdoor project in the landscape. Working primarily with domestic items, including furniture…

Lebanon pavilion at Venice Biennale to evoke the ‘chaos and beauty’ of Beirut

Lebanon pavilion at Venice Biennale to evoke the ‘chaos and beauty’ of Beirut

The exhibition features an installation by Lebanese artist Ayman Baalbaki and a video directed by Danielle Arbid Ayman Baalbaki’s ‘Janus Gate’ is inspired by Beirut’s urban landscape. Photo: Ayman Baalbaki Saeed Saeed Feb 27, 2022 Beirut is the inspiration behind the Lebanese pavilion’s key works at the Venice Biennale in Italy, which runs from April…

Honoring the Covid-19 Dead

Honoring the Covid-19 Dead

Artista plástico brasileño realiza instalación en Casa Das Rosas en Sao Paulo (Brazilian plastic artist performs installation at Casa Das Rosas in São Paulo) Spanish.xinhuanet.com | 2022-01-21 14:37:43 – http://spanish.news.cn/photo/2022-01/21/c_1310430751.htm SAO PAULO, 18 enero, 2022 (Xinhua) — Imagen del 18 de enero de 2022 de la instalación de arte llamada Renacimiento del artista plástico brasileño Siron Franco en…

111 LED Lights Create a Striking Starburst Illusion in an Abandoned Warehouse

111 LED Lights Create a Striking Starburst Illusion in an Abandoned Warehouse

By Sara Barnes on January 17, 2022 https://mymodernmet.com/jun-ong-light-installation/ Malaysian artist Jun Ong has pierced a former warehouse in Kuala Lumpur with light. Titled STAR/KL, the site-specific work features 111 LED beams that are fashioned into a starburst and penetrate the center of the building and outward past the chainlink fence and into the greenery. To create the illusion of one…

We Were Wild Reimagines “The Hut” in a New Installation at Alto Gallery

We Were Wild Reimagines “The Hut” in a New Installation at Alto Gallery

ARCHITECTURE SUSAN FROYD OCTOBER 29, 2019 5:57AM   Houses, like living beings, grow old and wear out, carrying history and stories with them to the grave. Meredith Feniak and Risa Friedman — who make up the wheat-pasting Denver duo We Were Wild — want to excavate some of those stories. “Like human cells, [houses] have memories built into…

“Daniel Arsham: Hourglass”, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

“Daniel Arsham: Hourglass”, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

March 4–May 21, 2017 This exhibition continues artist Daniel Arsham’s (American, born 1980) ongoing project Fictional Archaeologies, in which he creates replicas of everyday objects—such as basketballs and cameras—in precious and semi-precious stones. The objects become fossils, remnants of our present seen through the eyes of a future researcher. Daniel Arsham: Hourglass Hourglass comprises three…

Martha Whittington, “CONTEMPLATION RESOLUTION UNITY”, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia

Martha Whittington, “CONTEMPLATION RESOLUTION UNITY”, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia

To inspire invention by removing one to a remote location absent of internet communications, to promote thought for all who cannot escape the bounds of the city. A location in places accessible to all to bridge the gap between generations and expose them to the music works in a focused form. An installation for graduating…

David Brooks, A Proverbial Machine in the Garden, Storm King Art Center

David Brooks, A Proverbial Machine in the Garden, Storm King Art Center

The notion of a ‘machine in the garden’ is a cultural symbol that underlies the tension between the pastoral ideal and the rapid and sweeping transformations wrought by industrialized technology. brooks.stormking.org/ David Brooks from Storm King Art Center on Vimeo.

Judy Thomas, “Tendrils”, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

Judy Thomas, “Tendrils”, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

Judy Thomas, “Tendrils”, 2011 PEX, aluminum, vinyl, pantyhose, steel, rayon Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA Simple industrial materials are used in the construction – plastic, nylon, vinyl and wire with a base of hollow plastic pipe for the curvilinear structure. The plastic is then transformed by hand-wrapping each piece of tubing with colorfully…