Photographs by Corrado Serra. “’Heavenly Bodies’ features the work of designers who for the most part were raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. While their current relationships to Catholicism vary, most acknowledge its enduring influence on their imaginations. On the surface, this influence is expressed… Read More
Monthly archives of “May 2018”
Tanya Aguiñiga: Craft & Care at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), May 8 – October 2, 2018
“The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is pleased to present the first institutional solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles–based artist and designer Tanya Aguiñiga. Craft & Care highlights Aguiñiga’s practice at the intersection of fiber art, design, social practice, and activism, with a… Read More
Aaron Fowler: Bigger Than Me at New Museum, Storefront Window, May 2 – August 19, 2018
“Aaron Fowler (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) creates elaborate assemblage paintings from discarded found objects and unconventional materials sourced from his local surroundings. Through intuitive layering of castoff furniture, oil and acrylic paint, and collaged elements including CDs, water bottles, iridescent LED lights, car parts,… Read More
One Hand Clapping at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 4 – October 21, 2018
“The artists in One Hand Clapping explore our changing relationship with the future. Produced in both new and traditional mediums—from virtual reality technology to oil on canvas—their commissioned works challenge visions of a global, homogeneous, and technocratic future. On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates… Read More
Anna Boghiguian: The Loom of History at New Museum, May 2 – August 19, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The Loom of History marks the first US solo exhibition of Armenian-Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt). Her raw and expressionistic works combine painting, drawing, writing, collage, and sculpture to contemplate the past and present through intersections of economics,… Read More
Chaim Soutine: Flesh at The Jewish Museum, May 4 – September 16, 2018
“Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) is one of the twentieth century’s great painters of still life. In the Paris of the 1920s, Soutine was a double outsider—an immigrant Jew and a modernist. Guided by his expressive artistic instincts, he both embraced the traditional genre of still life… Read More