One of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Rebecca Belmore (b: 1960) started as a performance artist in the late 1980s. Her works address climate change, water access, land use, homelessness, and human displacement. She focuses on conflicting relationships with the state of women’s lives, historical events and violence […]
UPDATED: This was a superb exhibition, which captured me for most of a full day. See this CBC piece for more information. A major Leonard Cohen exhibition that includes new, commissioned works by artists the poet and musician has inspired is planned for 2017 at the Musée d’art […]
This piece by video artist Janet Biggs, A Step on the Sun, is a stunning combination of natural beauty and the horror of the worst job ever. It documents sulfur mining at Kawah Ijen, a volcano in East Java, Indonesia, where virtually unprotected workers are awash in poisonous […]
Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu has been attracting attention since the 1990s for her depictions of black women, “tampered with and prey to strange bodily mutations.” Moth Girls is an installation of hundreds of figures with leather wings and female legs, pinned on boards like insects. Wangechi Mutu, Detail, “Moth […]
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