Xu Bing’s text is illegible—even to those who can read Chinese.
Dr. Allison Young
While Hamilton's Just What is It… is considered to be among the most foundational works of Pop Art, this small collage was initially not created as a work of art.
Richard Hamilton, Just What is It That ...
From a live Smarthistory webinar: Dr. Allison Young, Teaching El Anatsui & "Global Contemporary" Art
From a live Smarthistory webinar: Dr. Allison ...
Textile or sculpture? El Anatsui purposely disregards the limiting categories imposed by Western art history.
El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth
In The Swing (After Fragonard), which is loaded with references to the French Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment and colonial expansion into Africa, Shonibare asks us to consider how a simple act of leisure can be so controversial.
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
How would you paint a picture of something that’s not quite representable… like the sound of voices chanting, a spiritual vision, a childhood memory, or a dream that you can’t remember?
A-level: Ibrahim El-Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood ...
How would you paint a picture of something that’s not quite representable… like the sound of voices chanting, a spiritual vision, a childhood memory, or a dream that you can’t remember?
Ibrahim El-Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams
This British-born Nigerian artist brings a Rococo painting into three dimensions, changing some critical details.
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
Textile or sculpture? El Anatsui purposely disregards the limiting categories imposed by Western art history.
El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth
What might Shonibare wish to communicate by bringing together these “African” textiles with Fragonard’s Rococo images?
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
In this work, a contemporary Ethiopian artist explores the utopian potential of chaos in a globalizing world.
Julie Mehretu, Stadia II
Why did the mayor of New York City threaten to close the museum exhibiting Ofili’s painting of the Virgin Mary?
A-Level: Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary
Neshat’s series examines the complexities of women’s identities in the Middle East’s changing cultural landscape.
A-Level: Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of ...
This British-born Nigerian artist brings a Rococo painting into three dimensions, changing some critical details.
A-Level: Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
This huge, abstract painting pulses with vivid color and bold gestural marks.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
Xu Bing’s text is illegible—even to those who can read Chinese.
Xu Bing, Book from the Sky
Kngwarreye’s rise to prominence as an internationally recognized artist doesn’t fit the typical mold.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
In this work, a contemporary Ethiopian artist explores the utopian potential of chaos in a globalizing world.
Julie Mehretu, Stadia II
Textile or sculpture? El Anatsui purposely disregards the limiting categories imposed by Western art history.
El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth
This British-born Nigerian artist brings a Rococo painting into three dimensions, changing some critical details.
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