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Kathleen Ryan recasts found and handmade objects as spectacular, larger-than-life meditations on consumer society, desire, and the fine line between kitsch and class. These materials are often at odds with the subjects they represent: delicate, sensual grapes are rendered with heavy, utilitarian concrete; mold colonies are composed of semiprecious gemstones. …
![Rochelle Costi, Moita, 2019, artificial plant stems, punched wooden slats beach chair, 90 x 68 x 60 cm [35 3/8 x 26 3/4 x 23 5/8 in], photo: Camila Svenson, Courtesy the artist and Luisa Strina Gallery](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/00-332x174.jpg)
Chairs and benches have legs that momentarily replace those of humans. Some chairs have arms, which also provide solace and rest. And …
Anselm Kiefer’s ongoing preoccupation with cultural memory, identity and history lends his works their multi-layered subject matter, fueled by a variety of …
The exhibition “Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991” is the first survey of the history of digital art from a feminist …
Agnes Varda was a photographer, artist and filmmaker, and a pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, the French new wave; a bold, original …
Arlene Shechet is a sculptor known for her effortless combination of disparate elements, precarious and provisional arrangements, and boundary-collapsing visual paradoxes. With …
Lucy Skaer’s multimedia practice is equal parts material and conceptual, drawing from a background of history, art and its foibles. The veritable …
The sculptural practice of Hans Josephsohn is characterised by his lifelong preoccupation with the human form. Over the course of six decades, …
Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. She has gained national and international recognition for …
Ghada Amer is best known for her subversive embroidered paintings that appropriate imagery from pornographic magazines as a means of creating an …
VALIE EXPORT makes strong feminist statements with her work. It questions the lack of self-determination of women in society and also draws …
Thanks to the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California and its partnership with the arts community, California Independent Petroleum Association announced …
John Baldessari created conceptual art that asks questions about what art is, how it is made and what it looks like. Combining …
The exhibition “Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson” is a subjective, intergenerational conversation between two practices, pulling the past into the present. The …
Anthony McCall has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. McCall was a key figure in the …
![Kahlil Robert Irving, Cement_Section [The Guardian... Could Be...]Laying new PIPE, 2023–24, Glazed and unglazed ceramic, decals, lusters and colored enamel, 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (41.9 x 34.3 x 39.4 cm), © Kahlil Robert Irving, Photo: Christopher Bauer, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/00-16-332x221.jpg)
The intergenerational assembly of Black artists in the group exhibition “Social Abstraction” explores the intersections of nonrepresentational form and social consciousness. Moving between and …
The provocative practice of Penny Slinger spans photography, collage, film and sculpture. Active from the late 1960s, Slinger emerged into a maelstrom …
Hiroka Yamashita’s paintings, which often take this familiar landscape as a point of inspiration, also inhabit similarly abutting liminal spaces, between the …
Josef and Anni Albers were pioneering 20th-century artists whose work, writing, and teaching demonstrably transformed the way that people see color and …
Just a few years after Morocco gained independence in 1956, Casablanca became a vibrant center of cultural renewal. The exhibition “Casablanca Art …
Abigail Reynolds uses montage techniques of layering and folding to destabilize singular ideas of cultural and political ecologies. She often works in …
Karolina Breguła is a visual artist and filmmaker. She creates stories about art, architecture and urban spaces, which are a field of …
Through his installations, sculptures and actions, Serge Attukwei Clottey invites us to reflect collectively and transversally about the environment and the global …
Ugo Rondinone is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and …
