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Tim Noble Shadow art

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Tim Noble & Sue Webster, NO - Exhibition & Limited Editions

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11400 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 / 216.421.8671 / info@mocacleveland.org

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Short video showing reverspective and his other rainbow creations. Love how he explains why & how he creates his work. Great for discussing the purpose and meaning of art and the importance of art as process and personal expression.

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Tylonn Sawyer

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Sawyer's passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth. He has worked with various community arts programs throughout New York, serving as art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. From 2011 to 2013 he was the program manager for an arts infused education organization in southwest Detroit, servicing Detroit public schools.

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The work of London-based artist, Patrick Hughes

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For 27-year-old artist Haifa Subay, the third anniversary of full-scale war in Yemen - marked this week - brings both shock and resignation. "I can't believe the war continues," said Subay, who is based in Sana'a. "When the fighting first began, I never imagined it would last for years, or even months. Every day I thought, 'Surely this will be the last day of fighting, surely it has to end soon.'" Instead, the war proceeded, with years of civil unrest giving way to a multilateral conflict that has left Yemenis in the grips of the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

After the first Saudi-led airstrike darkened the Sana'a sky on March 26, 2015, the eclipse of war was swift. "The bombings were endless," recounted Subay. "We felt constant fear: It wore away our hope and our sense of life." Yemen has been subject to over 16,000 airstrikes since 2015, an average of one air raid every 94 minutes for three years, with civilians like Subay suffering frequent consequences. "At one point, I had to take sleeping pills," said Subay, speaking over the phone, "because I was so hysterical from the bombing."

Subay's condition worsened after she lost her job at an import-export company in 2016, joining the majority of young Yemenis now unemployed in the country's war-ravaged economy. Trapped at home in an unraveling city, Subay's anxiety worsened. "I never imagined life could be this way. I was afraid every minute," she said. "It was a very dark time." Subay sought solace in her lifelong passion for art, losing herself in private notebooks that she filled with oils and acrylics, but the hours with her sketchbooks did little to soothe her worry. Outside her door, violence continued, food and fuel shortages worsened, and thousands fell victim to preventable disease. Perhaps worst of all, though, was the lack of hope.

"We felt forgotten as people," she said. "The war just went on, and when we looked at the news, or the world leaders, they were only concerned with the politics, with the military strategies. No one was talking about our suffering, about the human beings of Yemen."

After months of growing frustration, Subay decided to do something to combat this silence. "I realized the politicians and the media were not going to see us, so I had to make them see," she told me. She would take her message to the public the best way she knew how - with her art. On August 17 last year, armed with her personal arsenal of brushes and paint, Subay took to the hot streets of Sana'a. By the end of the day, sweaty and exhausted, she stood back to see her handiwork: a mural depicting a cluster of women and children huddling around a dark corner. The piece, which she titled "Behind the Destruction," would be the first in her ongoing #SilentVictims campaign, a series of murals highlighting the human cost of Yemen's continuing war.

Subay's pieces range widely, addressing the gruesome effects of shelling and landmines, but also paying tribute to the less tangible tragedies of war. Apart from the thousands of civilian lives lost - rough estimates suggest numbers between 5,000 and 11,000 civilians have been killed directly by military strikes, while around twice as many have been injured - the war between rebels and a Saudi Arabian-led coalition of Persian Gulf states has wrought havoc on virtually every aspect of Yemeni life. Over 1 million Yemenis have been afflicted by diseases such as cholera and diphtheria, a crisis compounded by the collapse of more than half the country's health care system. Inflation, blockades, and rampant unemployment have reduced the Yemeni economy by nearly half, while imports of crucial food and fuel supplies remain at a near-standstill, contributing to widespread shortages. An estimated 8.4 million Yemenis hover on the brink of famine. All told, the U.N. estimates that 22 million of the country's 25 million citizens are in need of humanitarian aid.

"There is no normal life for anyone," said Subay, "people live in fear and hopelessness."

Even so, Subay's work has offered her a sense of self-assertion and pride, however slight, and has inspired other women to join her in the campaign. Today, one of Subay's most loyal teammates is 27-year-old Sabreen Al Mahjali. Al Mahjali accompanied Subay for her first mural - not as a painter, but as a guardian. "I was worried for her," Al Mahjali recalled over video chat. "I thought maybe men would give her trouble for being on the street. And some men did bother us, but it wasn't too much." Watching Subay work, Al Mahjali was captivated: "I'm not a painter or an artist, but I wanted to take part in this message. I am a Yemeni and a woman, and I wanted to leave my mark." Al Mahjali's latest piece depicts a clenched fist inside the universal symbol for "woman."

Subay's group is comprised totally of women, with the team focusing their work exclusively on the experiences of Yemeni women and children. "This was a choice from the beginning," Subay said, "because these are the most overlooked people in the war. And they suffer terribly." Children make up some of the war's most vulnerable victims, with 11 million now in need of humanitarian aid, 2 million suffering from acute malnutrition, nearly half a million on the brink of starvation, and an average of 130 children under the age of 5 dying every day. And women-led households are on the rise as more men are killed or disappeared in the violence, leaving Yemeni women both burdened by economic concerns and at risk for gender-based violence. According to a recent estimate from the relief agency CARE, over 1 million pregnant and lactating Yemeni women are malnourished, while an additional 75,000 pregnant women are at risk of potentially lethal complications due to the country's ravaged health care system.

These themes were highlighted in the group's latest mural series, painted on March 8 to commemorate International Women's Day. Subay's piece depicted a woman covering her eyes and mouth, symbolizing the untold and unrecognized suffering of Yemen's female population.

The notion behind the murals resonated with Raghad Mubarak, a 27-year-old mother of one who joined Subay that day. "In Yemen right now, women are enduring more than ever before," she said. "They are losing men to the fighting, they are dealing with poverty, they are waiting in long lines just to get fuel or water, they are comforting their children. Many believe we are weak, but the world should know that Yemeni women are strong, maybe the strongest women in the world." Mubarak's own painting from that day shows a female figure, lips smiling faintly, cradling planet Earth.

Al Mahjali, who was on hand for Women's Day, said she hopes that these forms of public self-expression will help create space for more female voices in Yemen. "The Yemeni woman plays a huge role in society, but she is still marginalized," she said on video chat, with a regretful but determined smile. "Even if a woman has achievements or talents equal to men, she is still not seen as important as a man. We want to see that change."

Subay takes the lead in choosing the theme for each mural series - the group has touched on gender-based violence and child labor, among other issues - but says the focus is always on humanitarian, not political, topics. For her, the blame for the human suffering is shared by many - the Gulf states, the Houthi rebels, various political factions inside Yemen, and the international community. "All of them are keeping us in war instead of working for peace," Subay explained. Many of Subay's images are modeled after actual victims, while others are symbolic depictions of the suffering caused by the war, such as children who have lost limbs to illegal land mines.

Subay funds the projects herself, purchasing paints and brushes with revenue that she gains from her small business of buying and selling makeup products. "I spend about $50 to $100 on each mural, sometimes more," she said. "It is hard to afford, and it is also hard to find the supplies in the city. There are very few stores that carry the paints and brushes we need."

Despite the logistical obstacles, Subay is determined to expand her campaign. "When I finish a mural, I'm very tired, but I'm proud," she said. "As soon as I leave the wall, I'm already thinking about what to do next, how to improve my art, how to help spread this message further."

The women behind #SilentVictims derive purpose, camaraderie, and courage from their work, but admit that the larger questions of Yemen's future still plague them. "The war has changed everything. It is impossible to go on this way," said Mubarak. "We are desperate for peace." Yet after three years, said Subay, peace seems more distant than ever. "To be honest, I feel very hopeless from day to day. I do what I can, and I'm working for peace, but the situation in Yemen is very depressing," she said. "When people ask me if I think things will improve, I say inshallah - God willing - but it depends on the people with political power. If they choose peace, they can make it happen. But if they ignore us, if they think only of themselves, nothing will change."

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Three Years Into the Yemen War, a Collective of Women Street Artists Cope With the Destruction

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For 27-year-old artist Haifa Subay, the third anniversary of full-scale war in Yemen - marked this week - brings both shock and resignation. "I can't believe the war continues," said Subay, who is based in Sana'a. "When the fighting first began, I never imagined it would last for years, or even months.

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Modern and contemporary art, London.

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Blackfriars 300 metres from the South exit; 800 metres from the North exit.
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Blackfriars 300 metres from the South exit; 800 metres from the North exit.Cannon Street 1,000 metres approxLondon Bridge 1,100 metres approx.Waterloo 1,280 metres approx. Check TFL before you travel for any changes to their services.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian

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Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture and provides a national platform for the art and artists of our time.

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Das Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart ist nur etwa fünf Gehminuten von unserem Hauptbau bzw. Neubau entfernt. Der Weg lohnt sich: Hier warten Werke aus der Sammlung seit 1960 und spannende Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen und Künstler auf Sie.

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La diversité est au cœur de cette saison d'automne du Palais de Tokyo. La diversité des formes artistiques, tout autant que celle des identités. C'est sous cet angle que cet éditorial écrit par Guillaume Désanges nous propose de découvrir les expositions d'automne 2023.

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COSA MENTALE : ART, SANTÉ MENTALE ET NEURODIVERSITÉ AU PALAIS DE TOKYO

Dans la continuation directe de la " permaculture institutionnelle ", qui depuis 2022 infuse un esprit écologique dans le projet du Palais de Tokyo, les relations entre art et santé mentale ouvrent une nouvelle perspective à l'institution.

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Visites parallèles

Visites parallèles vous propose de découvrir la vie du Palais de Tokyo et de déambuler parmi les fragments d'histoires qui construisent ce lieu année après année.

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Petit traité de permaculture institutionnelle

Comme la permaculture adaptée à l'agriculture, la permaculture institutionnelle est une philosophie qui se concrétise progressivement, en prenant le temps de l'observation, selon une méthode et un rythme adaptés à des situations et des désirs particuliers.

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Interview des mountaincutters

Explorer la Tokyothèque

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Dédié à la création contemporaine, le Palais de Tokyo est le plus grand centre d'art en Europe. Expositions, performances, architecture, il est le lieu de toutes les audaces à Paris.

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The New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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Founded in 1967, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago champions the new and unexpected in contemporary art and culture through its exhibitions, performances, programs, and collection.

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Boston waterfront museum featuring leading visual artists and performance.

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Art Basel's three shows in Basel, Hong Kong, and Miami Beach are the premier art shows of their kind, presenting modern and contemporary art with a strong curatorial perspective.

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Meetings on Architecture - Communicating Architecture

Not just exhibition areas. Architecture exhibitions and communication is the theme of today's Meeting on Architecture.
With: Yvonne Farrell, Kieran Long (ArkDes), Pia Ilonen (Talli Architecture and Design), David Smith.

Freespace Films - Special Screenings

A programme of film-based work, both documentary and descriptive, that complement the diverse responses, interpretations and qualities drawn from the FREESPACE Manifesto.

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Meetings on Architecture - Communicating Architecture Not just exhibition areas. Architecture exhibitions and communication is the theme of today's Meeting on Architecture. With: Yvonne Farrell, Kieran Long (ArkDes), Pia Ilonen (Talli Architecture and Design), David Smith. Freespace Films - Special Screenings A programme of film-based work, both documentary and descriptive, that complement the diverse responses, interpretations and qualities drawn from the FREESPACE Manifesto.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art. Explore works, exhibitions, and events online. Located in New York City.

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Artrain's mission is to deliver discovery and - through the power of arts and culture - transform lives, organizations and communities. Countless individuals - from schoolchildren to grandparents - have experienced Artrain programs. Many have become art and creative practitioners, consumers, supporters, advocates and/or volunteers. Since its founding in 1971, Artrain has helped start or strengthen hundreds of cultural organizations. In recognition of its legacy, Artrain received the National Medal for Museum Service - the nation's highest award for museums - in 2006.

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Artrain's mission is to deliver discovery and - through the power of arts and culture - transform lives, organizations and communities. Countless individuals - from schoolchildren to grandparents - have experienced Artrain programs. Many have become art and creative practitioners, consumers, supporters, advocates and/or volunteers.

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The Flint Institute of Arts is the second largest art museum in Michigan and one of the largest museum art schools in the nation.

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Art : Current Exhibitions | Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA)

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A listing of exhibitions currently on view at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

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Welcome to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park | Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Experience masterpieces of art and nature that will delight your senses at one of the nation's premier horticultural display gardens and sculpture parks in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts is West Michigan's largest contemporary art center. Find movie showtimes, current exhibitions and events here.

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There are so many things that involve art and many people are also falling in love with it. A lot of people love to paint, draw, sing and dance as much as a lot of us appreciate them doing these things. If you love art, it's either you're one of those people who create them or simply loved masterpieces and aesthetic works of art. Some of us even go to theaters, see performances and personally go to art exhibits. I bet most of you who love buying paintings cannot anymore count your collections to the point that some of them are even stored safely in your garage behind your recently installed Scottsdale custom garage doors.

Well, The CAID is basically for all of us who love everything about art. We introduce to a lot of people the contemporary arts through performances, exhibitions and the funding of contemporary arts. We started in 2004 and until now, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit had been successful for holding exhibitions and performances. The Institute continued to grow and share to others the beauty and essence of contemporary arts.

Though we don't just hold exhibits and performances, we also teach kids and adults who are very interested and love the arts. With the help of funding we were able to secure in the past few years, we succeeded in making these learners improve and now they are all creating their own masterpieces and showing it to the world. Our organization would like to encourage you to join us and be part of our students or team. If you want to learn how to paint, draw and dance we guarantee that you will learn a lot from us.

Back in 2006, we started accepting students who were eager to learn contemporary arts and up until now, we still receive a great amount of both kids and adults. The ones who graduated and became professionals are now part of our organization. They hold exhibits, performances and help teach the new students. If you are already a professional painter, performer or anything that involve the arts, especially contemporary art, then we urge you to join us now.

Our Institute has always received great reviews all from clients, visitors, students and the workers as well. But even though we have a huge amount of employees and professional artists, we would still appreciate if many of you will join our organization and help us build the contemporary arts and promote it in other places other than Detroit. Our team plans to widen this Institute and build more branches to help more people learn about contemporary arts.

It will be fun to be with a lot of people who share the same interest in the arts so we hope you join us in our organization and continue to make more dreams happen. Don't forget to share your thoughts about our Institute and visit us personally as well. You are definitely welcome to go to The CAID anytime.

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There are so many things that involve art and many people are also falling in love with it. A lot of people love to paint, draw, sing and dance as much as a lot of us appreciate them doing these things.

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The DIA, a beacon of culture for the Detroit area for well over a century, creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.

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Off Book is a PBS web series that explores cutting-edge art, internet culture, and the people that create it. New episodes every other Thursday!

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As you can probably tell by now we're big fans of color over here at B/D. Athena Melton is a fan of color as well, bringing us these gorgeous monochromatic still life photographs. It's amazing how a simple move such as grouping similar colored objects together can completely change the dynamics between them and create a powerful visual. Kudos to Athena for a great body of work.

Artist Takumi Kama is trying to confront and conquer his fears of high school girls by turning them into strange reptiles and animals. By anthropomorphizing teenage girls, he makes them less threatening and harmful. The Japanese drawer has imagined one girl as a snobby, gangly giraffe, holding it's head up high and standing displeased with everything around it. He has drawn another one as a frightened armadillo huddled in the fetal position, looking terrified and uncomfortable. He has sketched the girls he would see on the train as a group of primates, absorbed in their cellphones; the book nerd in the school corridor is now an awkward frog beast holding her book in her weird hands, furry tail wrapped around a bottle of soda pop.

Kama has studied both the poses and mannerisms of the girls and also the beasts he has turned them into - combining them into one and the same. His immaculate pencil renderings create a convincing impression of these strange creatures, and it is easy to see them the way he does every time he encounters the demographic. Kama admits:

I am terrified of high school girls. If I encounter a group of them on a train there is a high possibility I will escape to another car. ( Source)

This certain sub culture is often dissected, or referred to in popular Japanese culture. Called Joshi kōsei (女子高生) they feature in manga comics and videos as well as being fetishized in pornographic videos. Kama is also obsessed with the idea of this social group, but in his series Schoolgirl Animals, they are seen as something a bit more imaginative and humorous than the usual schoolgirl fantasy. The collection of his pencil drawings were on show at BAMI gallery in Kyoto until May 31, 2015, but you can still enjoy more of the images after the jump. (Via Spoon Tamago)

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As you can probably tell by now we're big fans of color over here at B/D. Athena Melton is a fan of color as well, bringing us these gorgeous monochromatic still life photographs. It's amazing how a simple move such as grouping similar colored objects together can completely change the dynamics between them and create a powerful visual.

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Julia Reyes Taubman, co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, photographer and author sadly passed away from cancer January 28, 2018. Julie's legacy is marked by her dedication to the arts. In addition to co-founding the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) with Marsha Miro, she was a pillar of dedication, passionate about the arts and fascinated by Detroit. Julie's commitment was serious and deep.

In addition to co-founding MOCAD in 2006, Julie's guidance and friendship will continue to serve Detroit's cultural community. She will be sorely missed.

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Julia Reyes Taubman, co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, photographer and author sadly passed away from cancer January 28, 2018. Julie's legacy is marked by her dedication to the arts. In addition to co-founding the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) with Marsha Miro, she was a pillar of dedication, passionate about the arts and fascinated by Detroit.

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The community of Art21 Educators is always creating and experimenting with new lesson plan ideas in their classrooms. For each quarterly issue of the Art21 Magazine, we invite a new educator to share what they've been working on as an Educator-in-Residence.

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Tatiana Trouvé with "Desire Lines," on view in Central Park through Aug. 30. Credit Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

As a pastoral sculpture socked into the heart of a metropolis, Central Park has fascinated and provoked artists for decades. Claes Oldenburg hired gravediggers to excavate and refill a hole in it, to form an "invisible monument." Christo and Jeanne-Claude gated and orange-ified it. Diane Arbus used her camera to draw deeply from its well of the weird. Robert Smithson, creator of the monumental "Spiral Jetty" in the Great Salt Lake, suggested that the idea belonged to the park's beginnings: He called Frederick Law Olmsted, its chief designer, the "first 'earthwork artist.' "

So when Tatiana Trouvé, a highly regarded sculptor who works in Paris, was asked by the Public Art Fund to create a work relating to the park, her instincts told her to dream big. The piece she made, "Desire Lines," which goes on view Tuesday at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza near 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, is - in a manner of thinking - the size of the park itself. It is composed of miles of colored rope that, if unwound from the various-sized wooden spools that hold them, would stretch along every inch of the 212 paths, by Ms. Trouvé's count, that snake through the park's 843-acre rectangle.

Like the Borges short story about a map so large and detailed it corresponds precisely to the territory it maps ("In the deserts of the West, still today, there are tattered ruins of that map, inhabited by animals and beggars"), Ms. Trouvé's installation plays in the netherworld between the real and the represented. That seems only fitting because, as she said in an interview last week, she came to know the park first through studying maps and pictures and only later set foot in the thing itself.

"It was very interesting to me because you could see that it was not just land, but all the pipes and cables and lights and everything that is needed to run it," she said. "It's like a big machine, a lot of which you don't see. So making this, for me, was like making a sculpture on top of another sculpture."

As she said this, she was standing inside an old Park Avenue storefront with a tin ceiling, converted last year into an exhibition space by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents Ms. Trouvé. In the middle of the space stood a small-scale model of "Desire Lines," three black metal racks full of spools of cord, like something you might see being pushed in a cart through the garment district. On tables were long rectangular hand-drawn maps she had made of the park's sinuous paths, accented with copper and tin. And hanging on the walls were versions of these same maps stitched onto fabric, works that looked like a combination of an embroidered folk tablecloth and a snaky Brice Marden painting. (A show of these studies for the Public Art Fund piece opens Tuesday at the Gagosian space, at 821 Park Avenue, at 75th Street.)

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Tatiana Trouvé with her work, at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, that represents Central Park's paths. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

The park installation, which remains on view through Aug. 30, is the first public commission Ms. Trouvé, 46, has completed in the United States. But Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund, said he had been drawn to the ways her work - often sculptural interpretations of common but metaphorically resonant objects like shoes, mattresses, sinks and stoves - "suggested an interest in public space because they're about things that are individual but at the same time universal." Last year, she created a kind of fountain, "Waterfall," now on permanent view in Munich, in the form of a bronze mattress draped over a wall, slowly weeping water onto the ground from its buttons.

"It's not a waterfall by any stretch of the imagination - the water is just coming out of it in tiny little drops," Ms. Trouvé, smiling, said in animated, thickly accented English (she is French and Italian) on a recent frigid morning, wearing a blue sweater dress appropriately accented with long dangling yarn threads. "I'm interested in mattresses because I think of them more as a place than an object, but they're both."

For over two years, Ms. Trouvé worked on the Central Park project. (She likes to work mostly in solitude, with the occasional help of an assistant and fabricators for complex objects.) She wanted the park and its paths to function both as physical spaces and evocations of culture. So she dived into what she called "the wide world of marches," and used metal tags to assign each of her 212 spools - thus, each of the park's paths - a political march or a walk from history or art or song.

"The places in the park already have these names that make it into something like a history of modern society: the Engineers' Gate, the Women's Gate, the Artists' Gate, the Warriors' Gate, the Farmers' Gate," she said. And so, for example, she designated the path from the Scholars' Gate to somewhere near Playmates Arch in the park as an analog of the March 7, 1965, civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. The path from the Scholars' Gate around the Dairy and past Cop Cot, represents the "Hands Up, Walk Out" national marches staged on Dec. 1, 2014, to protest the death of Michael Brown and other police killings of unarmed people. And the one leading from the Boys' Gate around the Great Hill represents the Oct. 21, 1967, March on the Pentagon.

But the walks also traverse more poetic and conceptual ground, like Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers; or the artist David Hammons's "Phat Free," a 1995 performance in which he kicked a bucket down a deserted New York street at night; or Frank Zappa's "Winos Do Not March"; or Borges's short story "The Garden of the Forking Paths"; or the artist Allan Kaprow's 1972 "Easy," in which students carried stones along a dry riverbed.

"There are so many artists who have done work about walking, it's sad to me that I can't use all of them here," Ms. Trouvé said. But then, brightening, she added that she very well might, someday: "This is just a tiny, tiny atlas of all the walks I have found, all the walks I could find. I could keep working on this for years."

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C1 of the New York edition with the headline: Unspooling Great Journeys Along Park Paths. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Tatiana Trouvé Unwinds History in Public Art Project

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As a pastoral sculpture socked into the heart of a metropolis, Central Park has fascinated and provoked artists for decades. Claes Oldenburg hired gravediggers to excavate and refill a hole in it, to form an "invisible monument." Christo and Jeanne-Claude gated and orange-ified it.

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What are the National Arts Standards? A process that guides educators in providing a unified quality arts education for students in Pre-K through high school Read More

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Incorporating aspects of South American folklore, mythology, and religion, Berlin-based artist Olaf Hajek depicts thoughtful portraits of women and men infused with elements of life-often in their hairdos. Over the last few years Hajek's illustration work has appeared in major publications from the New York Times to the Guardian, but he also exhibits his acrylic paintings on wood and cardboard in galleries around the world. His most recent collection of work is being published in a forthcoming book titled Olaf Hajek: Precious, and one of his pieces was selected for the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 58. You can see more of his work on Saatchi Art.

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Portraits of People with Beards and Hairstyles Brimming with Life by Olaf Hajek

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Incorporating aspects of South American folklore, mythology, and religion, Berlin-based artist Olaf Hajek depicts thoughtful portraits of women and men infused with elements of life-often in their hairdos. Over the last few years Hajek's illustration work has appeared in major publications from the

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Photographer Reuben Wu creates images that reveal an alien splendor in natural and manmade landscapes across the globe. Previously he has explored the brilliant blue rivers of molten sulfur in Indonesian volcanoes, and photographed the thousands of glistening mirrors that compose Nevada's SolarReserve. For his ongoing series Lux Noctis, the Chicago-based photographer utilizes modified drones as aerial light sources, illuminating obscure landscapes in a way that makes each appear new and unexplored.

Recently Wu has evolved his process of working with the drones to form light paths above topographical peaks in the mountainous terrain. "I see it as a kind of 'zero trace' version of land art where the environment remains untouched by the artist, and at the same time is presented in a sublime way which speaks to 19th century Romantic painting and science and fictional imagery," said Wu to Colossal.

The light from his GPS-enabled drones create a halo effect around some of the presented cliffs and crests when photographed using a long exposure. An elegant circle of light traces the flight of the drone, leaving a mark only perceptible in the resulting photograph. You can see more of Wu's landscape photography on his Instagram and Facebook. (via Faith is Torment)

A book of Wu's photo series will be published in Fall 2018 and is available for preorder.

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Roman Ondák discusses Performance 4, Measuring the Universe, at MoMA

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East Lansing-based artist and activist Dylan Miner will debut new work created for his Michigan Artist Series exhibition at GRAM that will focus on the natural environment of West Michigan and its history. Miner is a Michigan native of Wiisaakodewinini (Métis) descent. In his current work about the history and culture of Anishnaabewaki, the Indigenous Great Lakes region, Miner explores the degradation of regional resources, capitalism, and colonialism as a way to shape awareness and create dialogue around these complex, intertwining issues. Miner imagines his artistic practice as creating new forms of contemporary Great Lakes regionalism, by focusing on the natural elements that make Michigan so unique and important.

In Water is Sacred // Trees are Relatives, Miner investigates the important historical and current issues around three primary natural elements: wood, water, and sky, and the traditional knowledge and beliefs around them within Great Lakes Indigenous cultures. For the exhibition, Miner will produce a series of large-scale cyanotype photographs on fabric that portray images of cloudy skies and water surfaces. For Miner, the blue color of the cyanotype process evokes water and sky, and also has symbolic correspondence to Michigan's history around Indigenous issues of sovereignty. (The cyanotype process was first used in 1842, the year that the Treaty of LaPointe was signed, the last of the eight major treaties ceding land that is now Michigan.) Miner will also create site-specific sculptural elements for the exhibition from old growth timber and other arboreal materials.

The project also includes a series of workshops Miner has devised in collaboration with two younger Indigenous artists based in Grand Rapids, who will lead cyanotype-making workshops with West Michigan Indigenous youth at selected regional locales. These works produced by these youth, as well as Miner's work in the exhibition, will be compiled in an accompanying artist's book to be published by Issue Press of Grand Rapids. Both the youth workshops and upcoming publication are generously supported by Barnes & Thornburg LLP.

Miner has exhibited his work internationally in solo and group exhibitions and been artist-in-residence or visiting artist at institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, École supérieure des beaux-arts in Nantes, France, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Rabbit Island, Santa Fe Art Institute, and numerous universities, art schools, and low-residency MFA programs. Miner is Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies and Associate Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He holds a PhD from The University of New Mexico and regularly publishes articles, book chapters, critical essays, and encyclopedia entries. In 2010, he was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship through the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution).

Support for this exhibition is generously provided by:

Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Beusse & Porter Family Foundation
The Jury Foundation
Steelcase Inc.

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Dylan Miner: Water is Sacred // Trees are Relatives | Grand Rapids Art Museum

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"Our role as artists is always to search for the light," says French artist JR ( previously) about the second act of his Retour à la Caverne project. "We know this much: You don't chase away the darkness with more darkness. You chase it away with light, however tiny."

The work he's referring to, though, is far from tiny. Cloaking Paris's Palais Garnier while the building is under construction, Retour à la Caverne is an enormous trompe l'oeil facade, the first part of which depicts a cave carved into the grand structure that houses the opera. Illuminated at the center, the temporary piece highlights the physical and metaphorical interactions between light and dark. Broken into two acts like an opera libretto, the work references Plato's allegory that emerging from the depths of the cave, and from darkness, brings knowledge.

"Act I" debuted earlier this fall with four nights of projected works, while the second part was held on November 12. "Back in September, we invited you to step out of the cave to go and explore. This time, we're inviting you back inside the cave," JR said while introducing the work. Whereas "Act I" portrays the cavern gouged into the center of the building, "Act II" switches perspectives, placing the viewers entirely inside the space.

Titled " Chiroptera," the performance featured choreography by Damien Jalet and music by Thomas Bangalter. More than 150 dancers appeared through an elevated seven-story scaffolding after an eerie introduction by ballerina Amandine Albisson, who appeared to open the cave, causing a plummet into darkness. As with many of JR's works, the artist asked the crowd to participate by using headlamps and their phones to illuminate the remainder of the performance, revealing the ways light can emerge from collective action.

Watch the full performance below, and find more from JR on Instagram.

Artist and architect Ulf Mejergren ( previously) continues his interest in cozy, outdoor constructions with a new series titled Farm Art. Collaborating with farmer Robert Pettersson, Mejergren built several site-specific structures from materials found around Pettersson's property in Grödinge, Sweden.

For "Pine Bark Hut," the pair layered thick, gnarly wood into a slender cabin camouflaged between two trees, a space first used for hunting and then storing tools. Similarly, "Root Hut" entwines gathered branches with the existing roots to create a small, sand pit enclosure nestled beneath the forest, while the circular "Moss Hut" stands 4.5 meters tall among the trees. The latter work "stems from the farmers' hunting interest," Mejergren writes. "For many years, he has put food at certain points in the forests so wild boars come to feed there. The problem is they are like bulldozers in the forests, looking for insects and roots in the soil, so they have dug up moss from the forest floor and left them scattered in big droves." Cloaked in the remaining lichen, the structure is a disguised refuge among the wild landscape.

Other works in Farm Art are more aesthetically driven, like the vivid "Sunset." Made of dandelion heads at full bloom, the spherical form appears to glow in a field of weeds and wildflowers. Find the full series on Mejergren's site and Instagram.

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Creative Growth Art Center was founded by Elias and Florence Katz in 1974. Operating in a former car-body shop near downtown Oakland, California, Creative Growth provides studios, gallery space, and supplies to more than 150 artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities, who work in a wide array of media. Predicated on the belief that art is fundamental to human expression and that all people are entitled to its tools of communication, Creative Growth is an incubator of artistic activity that has fostered exemplary artists, such as Dan Miller, Judith Scott, William Scott, and Monica Valentine.

An outgrowth of the Bay Area grassroots collectivism and disability-rights movement of the 1970s, the nonprofit Creative Growth Art Center is currently run by the filmmaker and former curator, Tom di Maria. The organization's success challenges society's assumptions about inclusion and exclusion in art and culture, disability visibility, and access to creative expression as a human right; like any other contemporary artists, Creative Growth artists use art to tell their stories.

Creative Growth artists have had major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Judith Scott, 2018); Venice Biennale (Dan Miller and Judith Scott, 2017); Brooklyn Museum (Judith Scott, 2015); Museum of Modern Art (Dan Miller, 2008); and White Columns (William Scott, 2009, 2006). Creative Growth Art Center is located in Oakland, California.

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"The audience is like a dog. They can feel immediately that you are afraid, that you are insecure, that you're not in the right state of mind - and they just leave..."

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Towards the late 1950s, as abstract art began to lose impetus, many artists across the world began to embrace performance art. Performance had been a feature of avant-garde art since around 1910, but Marina Abramović's work is typical of the aims of the new generation in her eagerness to avoid traditional, object-based art materials (such as paint and canvas), and to cut down the distance between the artist and the audience by making her own body the medium. Born under Yugoslavia's repressive Communist dictatorship, and raised by parents closely tied to the regime, Abramović's dramatic and dangerous performances often seem like cathartic responses to these early experiences of power. She has produced a quantity of sculpture, but she remains best known for performance, and she remains one of only a handful of performance artists of her generation who have continued to perform late in their career.

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Marina Abramović's work is typical of the ritualistic strain in 1960s performance art. It often involves putting herself in grave danger and performing lengthy, harmful routines that result in her being cut or burnt, or enduring some privation. She views her art almost as a sacrificial and religious rite, performed by herself for a congregation of viewers. And the physical ordeals she endures form the basis for exploring such themes as trust, endurance, cleansing, exhaustion, and departure.

We might interpret her work as having displaced art from traditional media such as painting and sculpture, and moved it directly on to her body. Yet far from conceiving it as simply a surface, she has said that she thinks of the body as the "point of departure for any spiritual development."

Between 1976 and 1988 she collaborated with the German-born artist known as Ulay. The performances the pair created during this time often exploited their duality to investigate ideas such as the division between mind and body, nature and culture, active and passive attitudes, and, of course, between male and female.

Biography

Childhood

Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia to parents who held prominent positions in the Communist government. Her father, Vojin, was in the Marshal's elite guard and her mother, Danica, was an art historian who oversaw historic monuments. After her father left the family, her mother took strict control of eighteen-year-old Abramović and her younger brother, Velimir. Her mother was difficult and sometimes violent, yet she supported her daughter's interest in art. While growing up, Abramović saw numerous Biennales in Venice, exposing her to artists outside of Communist Yugoslavia such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Louise Nevelson.

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Each symbol in Tanavoli's Poets, Locks, Cages at the Vancouver Art Gallery holds a special meaning in Sufism, which has inspired his work.

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