Leading lights - Artists
Artist highlight: JR, the anonymous street artist shedding light on the invisible
Who is JR? Well, frankly, we don’t really know who he. On the spectrum of the highly-elusive Banksy to the often in the media Ai Weiwei, JR is somewhere in […]
E. Jane, Naudine Pierre, and Elliot Reed to be Studio Museum artists in residency
Recently, the Studio Museum Harlem announced that artists E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed will be their artists in residence for their 2019-2020 Artist-in-Residence (AiR) programme. The AiR programme […]
Ai Weiwei wins case against Volkswagen for the use of his work against his will
On July 17th, a court in Copenhagen sided with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei in a legal dispute against Volkswagen. The court determined that Volkswagen’s Danish distributor Skandinavisk Motor […]
25 artists that have defined contemporary art
David Breslin, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection; Martha Rosler, American conceptual artist; Kelly Taxter, the Jewish Museum’s curator of contemporary art; Rirkrit Tiravanija, a Thai conceptual […]
Kate Klingbeil: Painting the Recovery of the Feminine
I first saw Kate Klingbeil’s work at the Gallery in 2018. As Klingbeil’s total body work represents the most important inquiry that can happen in the world. cultural production of […]
Artists selected to create statue honouring Shirley Chisholm in New York
Artist team Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have officially been announced by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and women.nyc to create a forthcoming statue of Shirley […]
Artist uses kickstarter to highlight Bostonian’s legacy of slave trade outside Faneuil Hall
Artist Steve Locke recently turned to the public to help fund a memorial he has planned for right in front of Boston’s famed Faneuil Hall. Locke, who has lived and […]
