Venice Biennale

At the 2016 Venice Biennale, I was greatly intrigued by a project – West Village - in my hometown, designed by a local architect, Liu Jiakun. His emphasis on social issues differs widely from the quixotic design mindset I had back then. Eager to learn about his philosophy…

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…

Some might claim that parks are places where people go to see nature rather than art. It is simply an open space for recreation that normally requires a low level of maintenance for trails, picnic areas, and benches. Art is expected not to be touched and playgrounds are built for children to run and climb all over them. Therefore a combination of art and play areas do not seem to blend well together however, Noguchi’s Playscapes managed to accomplish contemporary art in a regular park space. His…

becoming recognised both nationally and internationally and is included in several public and private collections around the world (Caruana 1999). Consequently, some of the more memorable collections were when she represented Australia at the Venice Biennale and in 1997 Queensland Art Gallery staged a major retrospective collection of Emily’s work throughout Australia and travelled from the National Museum in Canberra to Osaka and Tokyo, Japan (Museum of contemporary art Australia 2017). The…

I have chosen to do my essay on the feminist movement, focusing mainly on the activist group called The Guerrilla Girls. I chose this specific group to focus on as they caught my attention when learning about them. After doing more research on them made me certain that this was going to be the topic of my essay. The reason I chose this group to focus on is due to the fact that they stood for what they believed was wrong and tried everything they could to change the art world and make it equal.…

Marina Abramović is one of the greatest female performing artists of the 20th century, known as "performance art" mother and as a self described "grandmother of performance art." Marina, as an early creator of long-term cosmopolitan, no fixed abode living, has lived in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, the United States, and as such is truly a "global citizen." Marina began her nearly four-decade long performance art career in the 1970's. She uses her body as her raw material and as her original…

world’ ideology.8 Outside of cinema, art films provide another complication. The art-films of Australian artist Shaun Gladwell demonstrate a middle ground, where illusion is harder to distinguish from reality. His Australian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, titled…

and a studio in Brooklyn. She purchased a ranch in the mid 1980s in her private gathering; she has works by Alice Neel, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, and Louis Bourgeois. In 1990, she turned into the first lady represent to the United States at the Venice Biennale, and won the celebration 's prestigious Golden Lion…