By Anne Swartz
American Joan Jonas’ art is a subtle and complex interplay of images arranged like words in sentences and paragraphs engaging with the simultaneous denotative and connotative meanings of language. She has used video and sound, installation and performance to showcase the essence of social, lived experience, first exploring gender, then visuality, [...]
By Anne Swartz
“She’s relying purely on being an attractive Muslim.” Much of the critique of Sarah Maple’s artwork comes down to this anonymous comment on myartspace.com several years ago. Maple uses her images to draw the viewer into her maelstrom, fighting against any insidious social and cultural pressures. Then, once there, she springs [...]
By Anne Swartz
Some feminist artists have used pornography as source material and made it a central part of their works. Such artists as Sylvia Sleigh, Annie Sprinkle, Lisa Yuskavage and E.V. Day have considered and engaged pornography as a liberating force in their works. Indeed, there is an appetite for images of sex [...]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - New York
By Anne Swartz
I went to this exhibition expecting to hate it, jaded as I was by past visits to see Cattelan’s work. Imagine my surprise when I found myself amused and engaged by the installation of 132 of his works from the central rotunda ceiling in the [...]
