Installation art

Living with Art is important for many reasons including historical documentation, aesthetics, and promoting a positive self-image, which helps us to see ourselves differently, and those around us differently. Similarly, art provides us with culture, creativity, and personal fulfillment – if we open up our hearts and minds to the possibilities, the arts can offer. When you have an open mind, you are more apt to look and respond to ideas or people with an appreciation along with the…

Motion / Emotion is a collection of dark ghostly creatures, dangling limbs and lingering scenes. “Messager works across painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation, and the exhibition includes pieces from her early career up to now. Messager’s works reveal a keen interest in humanity and its fragile, emotional core.” From entering her exhibition and walking through, I feel as though each piece embraced new and different emotions. The first piece that she had on display was one…

Kara Walker -- an African American artist -- creates a space for race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity through her art. Walker, according to bio.com, was born in Stockton California, during the fall of 1969. Where does a seasoned artist like Walker draw her inspiration? Many have speculated that her inspirations came from her father, who was also a painter, and influenced Walker to become a painter herself at the age of the three. But, In a report by the Wall Street Journal’s 2014…

New Orleans, LA. and Memphis, TN. are two cities that have more in common than just sharing a border along the Mississippi River. Both are responsible for birthing a music legacy that has defined American Music, not to mention bragging rights for a culture rich in food and southern folklore, owing to a tourism industry which keeps the local economy afloat. Unfortunately, they often unintentionally compete with each other in having one of the highest poverty rates in the country. As a result,…

Imagine the excruciating moment when a child pausing in front of your work in an exhibition and simply saying “That isn’t art, I could do that!” Not considering the plethora of factors that weave themselves into that one - seemingly simple - work of art, the child may easily think that some of the most famous works of art of the 21st century can be effortlessly recreated. While the abstract technique of modern artist may seem elementary to some, Andy Warhol is a prime example of an artist who…

The Labyrinth of Renewed Conversation is a public art intervention that intends to offer not only a “public experience of space but rather public debate that becomes the work of art,” something that “can end with its acceptance or rejection” (Hein, 1996: 4) (North, 1990: 860–879). Labyrinth of Renewed Conversation seeks to demonstrate the somewhat ‘knotty’ situation that students have faced in South Africa with regards to the #FeesMustFall movement. Saleem Badat expresses that the #FeesMustFall…

Northern part of Japan. "When you are a kid, you are too young to know you are lonely, sad, and upset," he told ART news ' Kay Itoi. "Now I know I was." (Yoshitomo Nara Biography. n.d.) However, we…

The Art Museum as Ritual is an article written by Carol Duncan that questions the role and function of public museums. In this article, Duncan shows his dissatisfaction with the way museums use objects of art to come up with particular political meanings aimed at achieving a certain purpose. According to her, some nations came up with western style museums to be perceived as having desirable diplomatic or political allies. This essay summarizes the main ideas in the article by Carol Duncan,…

not much want a Thierry Guetta original; I like Thierry Guetta, Banksy, the creator of this film, is a gifted filmmaker whose thoughts, as he regards Guetta, must resemble those of Victor Frankenstein when he regarded his monster: It works, but is it Art?” (Ebert, rogerebert.com). According to Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan, “Subversive, provocative and unexpected, Exit Through the Gift Shop delights in taking you by surprise, starting quietly but ending up in a hall of mirrors as…

more than 60 different museum to choose from. The Van Gogh Museum boasts ranks as the number one spot in the world for collections of Van Gogh's work, and if you visit Stedelijk Museum, it will showcase some of the more modern art with a more edgy contemporary installation. In the Museum Het Rembrandthuis, you can admire some of the etchings from the master Rembrandt. He lived a canal house from 1639 to 1658 where he worked, and it has now become a museum.…