Glenn Kaino is the cocurator of “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum that is part of “PST ART: Art & Science Collide” in Los Angeles. Below, he discusses conservation and artistic production, along with related interests. “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Image…
When it comes to Salvador Dalí, the most compelling stories seem at once blatantly apocryphal and perfectly plausible—a definition, of sorts, for Surrealism itself. So it goes with Dalí’s correspondence with Yoko Ono. The two first met while Ono was on her European honeymoon with John Lennon in 1969. As newspaper reporters shadowed the world’s…
Jessie Montgomery, Grammy award-winning composer and violinist, shares the key elements that shape her music and role as an artist-citizen. Source link
If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement on the genocide in Gaza,” according to its maker,…
Nearly 20,000 Shona citizens once animated the 1,800-acre ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Sub-Saharan Africa has many zimbabwes, or stone villages, but this one is by far the most legendary. All that remains from the medieval capital is its awe-inspiring, stony skeleton. But, long after the Kingdom of Zimbabwe’s demise in the 15th century, Great Zimbabwe’s…