I’m not sure what I was expecting Bill Viola to look like but I was a little surprised to walk into the room with my fellow MoMA Junior Associates to find a thin, balding gray haired man with a mustache, beard and glasses standing front and center. Had he not referenced Zen Buddhism several times, [...]

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Shonibare, of Nigerian descent, was born in Britain in 1962. His work spans many media in its attempts to touch on ideas about African identity and the “legacy of European colonialism.” Most famous for his use of “Dutch wax fabric” this exhibition on through September 20th highlights 12 years of his work including installations, photography, [...]

While there was some art I did not necessarily enjoy in this exhibition, I think the idea behind it is commendable. Chelsea Art Museum’s mission is “to promote cross-cultural understanding through the arts.” This particular show, including video, sculpture, photography, and painting, strives to explore the human spirit from both inside and outside a country [...]

By the time this blog is posted this exhibition will have come down but this is still an artist you should know about. He is a young internationally acclaimed Dutch artist who works in video that often appears to be documentary in nature but is really carefully staged however, there are no real characters or [...]

In 2011, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is going to install two video installations by the US artist, Bill Viola. The treasurer of the cathedral is hoping that some of the five million Tate Modern visitors per year will cross the Millennium Bridge to see Viola’s work as well.
He believes that “art today captures people’s [...]