A handmade wool prayer rug, with materials imported from Kashmir, showcases bursts of color alongside political and religious imagery. Titled “Purple Heart,” it is indicative of Baseera Khan’s larger ...
Seth Price is not an artist—or at least, he’s hesitant to adopt that title. It makes sense. The term “artist,” free though we think it is, actually refers to a very specific type of maker, one who ...
Last week my fellow Hyperallergic editor Kyle Chayka wrote a post about video artist Wendy Vainity, who makes bizarre, creepy, and sometimes funny 3D animations. Chayka began by posing a question: ...
Singapore-based artist Heman Chong talks about making art from everyday systems, the allure of incomplete narratives and his largest exhibition to date. Your Singapore Art Museum exhibition title ...
Picture a flagpole in your mind. What does that tall metal pillar mean to you? A flagpole can serve as a spot for meeting or gathering; it can be a landmark; it can be a piece of the past. It almost ...
Consider it an exhibition decades in the making. British artist John Isaacs first rose up in London among the Young British Artists of the 1990s and, in the years since, has cultivated a dynamic ...
I recently finished reading Dr. Nancy Rappaport's excellent book In Her Wake, and it reminded me once again that our lives are works of art - or at least they can be works of art if we choose to make ...