Monthly archives of “February 2018

Natasha Bowdoin: Maneater at MASS MoCA, through November 2018

“In Maneater, Houston, Texas based artist Natasha Bowdoin creates her largest-ever cut paper and collage installation, which investigates the intersections of the visual, the experiential, and the literary, treating language and nature as kindred phenomena. Referencing such sources as Golden Age children’s book illustrations, 19th-century botanical drawings, floral textile patterns, lunar maps, and prints of underwater… Read More

Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson at The Minneapolis Institute of Art, February 3 – May 27, 2018

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) collaborated with celebrated theatre director and visual artist Robert Wilson to organize a first-of-its-kind exhibition highlighting the drama, rituals, and opulence of the Qing Empire, the last imperial dynasty of China. The exhibition presents objects from Mia’s renowned collection of Chinese art, including rare court… Read More

Anna-Wili Highfield: Spirit Faces at Olsen Gruin Gallery, February 6 – March 6, 2018

“Olsen Gruin is pleased to present Spirit Faces, an installational exhibition of new sculptures by Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield (b. 1980, Sydney). Highfield’s first fully conceived body of work in a decade, Spirit Faces gathers a celebratory mélange of animals, body parts, and self-portraits. Virtuosic and playful, Highfield’s mixed… Read More