The slippery space between expressions of physical discomfort and intense pleasure are taken up in New York based painter Jade Thacker’s work. With a background in printmaking, the artist’s diaristic arrangements tackle the manifold experience of womanhood with a compositional balance that brings new figures into focus with each observation. Oftentimes Thacker uses text to…
Hailing from New Orleans and based in New York, multidisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome works at the intersection of assemblage, technology, sculpture, video, music, and performance. Newsome’s work celebrates and abstracts Black and queer contributions to the art canon, resulting in new and inclusive forms of culture and media. While in residence at Somerset House Studios…
New York-based artistic duo Ming Lin and Alexandra Tatarsky are behind Shanzhai Lyric, a collaborative practice that documents and transforms awkwardly translated slogans from mostly Chinese manufactured bootleg garments into an on-going poem. The subversive and unendingly entertaining project has gained a following both in the art world and on Instagram, exploring the global fashion…
Alberto Landgraf, the celebrated chef behind two-Michelin-starred restaurant Oteque in Rio de Janeiro, has recently launched his first London concept, Bossa. Situated between Mayfair and Marylebone, Bossa seeks to embody the spirit of Brazil in the British capital. Growing up as the son of a farmer, Landgraf developed a deep appreciation for nature and seasonality….
Howardena Pindell is a pioneering American artist, curator, and educator. With a career spanning over fifty years, Pindell, hailing from Philadelphia and now 80, has continuously challenged audiences. As MoMA’s first Black curator, she made history. She was the first to step down in protest against the museum’s failure to denounce the display of Donald…
Opening on 21 June and running until 3 September 2023, London’s Hayward Gallery is set to present Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, a major new exhibition exploring how international contemporary artists are helping to reframe our responses to the climate crisis. The ambitious group show seeks to inspire a renewed…
Hailing from Villa El Salvador, a coastal district on the fringes of Lima, Peru, artist Wynnie Mynerva grew up in an environment where violence based on gender, sexuality, race, and social class was normalised. Responding to both their traumas and desires, Mynerva creates cathartic visions of revenge and emancipation. Their large-scale, colourful paintings portray bodies…
Born in Tehran in 1986 during the Iran-Iraq war, LA-based Iranian artist, writer and filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran uses film and video to explore narratives of belonging outside of the geographies and temporalities that have both unsettled a sense of home, and make places of affinity uninhabitable. Khoshgozaran has previously presented her work at the New…
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