Mexican conceptual artist Tania Candiani’s presentation of “Camouflage” at the Freize Projects February 14 -16 2020 in the city of Los Angeles charts the historical narrative of the forced Japanese labor encampments in California during WWII by simulating the fabrication of giant protective covers to
“Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time.” Rachel Carson “Humanity has managed collaterally to decimate the natural environment and draw down the nonrenewable resources of the planet with cheerful abandon. We thereby accelerated the erasure of entire ecosystems and the
It is easy to forget in this age of instant images in a 24/7 news cycle that there is a difference between the candidate we see on the screen and the one we see live and in-person, not edited or framed in a particular way
The J. Paul Getty Museum Presents Gordon Parks’ Flavio Story July 9 – November 10, 2019 Gordon Parks was the most accomplished black American photographer, whose major works were produced from 1940-1970. His camera focused on civil rights struggles, poverty, and African-Americans. An accomplished, filmmaker, composer, writer, and
The problem of a performance artist’s legacy is not limited to the solo artist whose biography and distinctive persona are central to their work. As discussed in my last essay these performances cannot be recreated or performed by anyone else after the individual artist’s demise,
