Black History Month: Ali and Chase-Riboud
The Curator’s Corner celebration of Black History Month continues with two contemporary artists whose personal visions are broadly different, but fascinating nonetheless—Laylah Ali and Bar ...
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Artist Birthday: Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar is an installation artist whose work is conceptual and documents injustice, genocide, ongoing famine, and other major afflictions to humanity in many parts of the world. ...
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Happy New Year 2025: teamLab
I can’t think of a nicer way to end 2024’s blog posts than with images from the beautiful immersive digital installation, Proliferating Immense Life - A Whole Year per Year, by the Japanes ...
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Autumn Is Upon Us: Yun-Fei Ji
I’m marking the onset of autumn with a work of art from Chinese American artist Yun-Fei Ji. His work tackles many subjects about contemporary China, as well as world-wide issues such as pollutio ...
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Gem of the Month: Kyoko Tokumaru
Kyoko Tokumaru is a brilliant sculptor who creates organic forms in ceramics, fashioning complex pieces out of hard-to-work-with porcelain. Like many contemporary clay sculptures, Tokumaru’s wor ...
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A Winter Tree: Jennifer Steinkamp
I’m fairly certain that many of us have experienced the sight of snow-laden trees in January. That is my favorite part of winter. What better image to conjure up the sensation of a cold winter d ...
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The Intangible in Japanese Photography
Traditional reverence for nature—a mainstay in most Japanese art forms throughout art history—continues in the work of contemporary Japanese artists. After a couple of beautifully foggy mo ...
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Gem of the Month: Lori Weitzner
Some of the major developments in the design world during the 2000s have involved the use of sustainable materials, ecologically friendly production processes, and upcycling otherwise wasted materials ...
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AAPI Heritage Month 2023: Chan Chao
Photography was a groundbreaking art form when it was first introduced. Quite soon after its development, numerous Western photographers explored photography for documentary and journalistic purposes. ...
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Gems of the Month: Contemporary Japanese Tea Bowls
This month’s gems are contemporary artworks that serve the ages-old Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu or sado). Tea drinking was first introduced in Japan during the Nara period (710–794) aft ...
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