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Artist Adam Pendleton on Taking Over MoMA’s Atrium With a Monumental Tribute to Black Dada
For his first solo exhibition at a New York institution, the 37-year-old American artist Adam Pendleton has taken a big swing in the heart of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Scaling three sides of the soaring atrium space, modular black 60-foot scaffolds support black-and-white text-based paintings as big as 10 by 20 feet; large-scale […]
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‘They Are Given a New Life’: Watch Ghanaian Artist El Anatsui Weave Bottle Caps Into His Monumental, Innovative Sculptures
Ghanaian artist El Anatsui creates monumental assemblage sculptures woven from colorful, shiny objects, creating tactile curtains that seem to breathe on their own. The works sell routinely for more than one million dollars each at auction, but their beginnings are humble. The works may be made from pieces of wood, metal, ceramic, and—most often—bottle caps, […]
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The Art World Remembers the Late Painter Hung Liu, Who Valorized Everyday Immigrants in Monumental Portraits
On the eve of her first museum retrospective, Oakland-based painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to find success in the U.S., died on Saturday, August 7 from pancreatic cancer. She was 73. Over the course of her career, Hung Liu created large-scale paintings and installations based on photographs, often drawn from her own […]
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Richard Serra’s Monumental Sculpture in the Qatari Desert Has Been Vandalized Yet Again
Richard Serra’s largest public artwork to date, a line of four 45-foot-tall steel plates spanning nearly four miles in the western Qatari desert, has been vandalized once again. The incident was announced this week on social media by Qatar Museums, a government organization that oversees the country’s public art. It did not share details of […]