The project, titled The List and produced by artist Banu Cennetoğlu, displays the names of 34,361 migrants attempting to reach Europe who have died en route since 1993. The work was torn down by vandals late last month from its outdoor display at the Liverpool Biennial; it was reinstalled this past Monday (August 5), though Biennial organizers say it may be targeted again.
Tag: 08.09.18
Art Galleries Are Leaving LA’s Boyle Heights, Scene Of Anti-Gentrification Protests
In recent months, several art spaces have abandoned the informal gallery zone that had materialized over the last five years in the area known as the Flats, the low-lying, largely industrial sliver of Boyle Heights that borders the Los Angeles River.
Profit Flop at Sotheby’s: Auction Houses’ Self-Defeating Assumption of Consignors’ Risk
My critical analysis at the end of last spring’s round of major New York art auctions … has been supported by the figures in Sotheby’s earnings report issued Monday.
Matt Groening Goes Medieval On Us
“But while it takes place in a medieval realm of wizards and dragons, [the new series] is not exactly Mr. Groening’s answer to Game of Thrones. Disenchantment is more like [his] comic amalgam of fantasy franchises like Lord of the Rings and the animated epics of Hayao Miyazaki, to name just two of its dozens of influences. It is also Mr. Groening’s first show created for a streaming service … as well as, consequently, his first to have a serialized narrative.”