New York-based artist Justin Chance’s practice centres around an ongoing series of quilts the artist primarily fabricates from felted wool encased in silk organza. Recognising the political histories and personal potentialities of quilting, Chance views these works as both pictorial surfaces and objects in their own right, ones in which memories, suggestions of narrative, and…
Open now at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, and on view until 5 January 2025, Bneid Al Gar is the largest solo exhibition to date of the Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist, Alia Farid. Last year, Farid received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, which alongside significant financial support offers awardees a solo exhibition at the Norwegian arts…
Inaugurating the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology’s autumn programme from 18 September 2024, Black Ancient Futures brings together a group of African and diaspora artists to Portugal’s capital for an exhibition that reimagines the past, present, and future of the Black artistic experience on a transcontinental scale. The participating artists have been…
Spanning millennia, the story of Cappadocia, a myth-steeped and ancient land in Central Anatolia, Turkey, has been shaped by numerous civilisations, religions, and empires over centuries. The region’s history dates back to the Palaeolithic era, with evidence of human settlements existing long before the rise of any organised society. However, it was during the Hittites’…
This autumn, William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow will present the first exhibition on the influence of art from the Islamic world on William Morris, one of Britain’s leading 19th-century designers and thinkers. A principal founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Morris was responsible for producing hundreds of patterns for wallpapers, furnishing fabrics, carpets and…
The word “origami” most likely conjures images of neatly folded paper cranes and centuries-old traditions rooted in Japanese history. And while Japan undoubtedly played a critical role in the practice’s evolution and popularisation, the story of paper folding as an art form is richer and more culturally diverse than many assume. To understand its…
Titled Meanwhile Histories, the third edition of the St. Moritz Art Film Festival (SMAFF) will take place in Switzerland’s Engadin valley from 12–15 September 2024. Under the Artistic Direction of Stefano Rabolli Pansera — Founding Director of Bangkok Kunsthalle and a former Director of Hauser & Wirth — with curatorial support from Roisin Tapponi, Leonardo…
Paris-based visual artist Carmen Badolian’s canvas is her body, an expressive ground where history, imagination, and emotions meet in skin. Each texture, reflection, and ray of light is an essential actor in what she refers to as her “visual accidents” — there is an almost surreal quality to her images, which blur the lines between…