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“Abundance” is the perfect word to describe the “Edges of Ailey” exhibition at the Whitney Museum in Chelsea, New York. Running until February, the show highlights the achievements and influence of Alvin Ailey, a choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
The strange and wonderful Centre George Pompidou in Paris is presently home to the exhibition Surréalisme (Surrealism), which celebrates the centennial of this art movement with a dizzying collection of artworks in this style, prompted by the creation of André Breton’s founding Manifesto in 1924.
Jenny Holzer’s Guggenheim exhibit, Light Line, is charged with layers of power and relevance. The collaboration opened in May and runs until September 29, 2024. It features a spiraling LED display featuring words from Holzer’s other words. Collaborator Lee Quiñones’ graffiti messages of grief and war adorn the adjacent walls.
Though she painted and wrote more than 80 years ago, Emily Carr remains a pillar of Canadian art and a much-discussed figure in the discourse
The Venice Biennale takes place every second year. The 2024 event is titled “Foreigners Everywhere.” This article explores the concept of globalization and the positive and negative understandings of such a theme at this “highly political, provocative, and groundbreaking” cultural and artistic event.
Manhattan’s Whitney Biennial 2024 is the 81st edition of this contemporary art survey show. The show’s subtitle, Even Better Than the Real Thing, acknowledges the complexity AI brings to the art landscape and our understanding of reality. Explore four of the iconic artists and artworks on display at this year’s event.
Following the news of sculptor Emily Young’s inclusion in the 2024 Venice Biennale, we are honoured to highlight two of her stunning smaller “angels”—compact answers
Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Punctum’ at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan takes the viewer through a process of unlearning the neat categorizations of artistic mediums. Photography and sculpture in grey, black, and white transport us beyond realism.
Tony Tascona, the “godfather of the Manitoba arts scene,” spent more than 40 years immersed in artistic exploration, embracing an ever-transitioning style that nevertheless upheld
Marika St. Rose Yeo’s Shifting Conversations sculpture series explores “the premise of search, the act of seeking out traces of things left behind, and information
“The land shapes people, but people also shape the land.” For contemporary Canadian artist Jeremy Herndl, painting is a tool for experiencing a place. Jeremy’s
Non-indigenous people compulsively link “tradition” to Indigenous peoples and equate indigeneity with spirituality above all else. When First Nations peoples and art are assumed to
