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Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA

“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of the self as fluid and open to ongoing...

Exhibition: Vital Signs Artists and the Body at MoMA, Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025

“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of the self as fluid and open to ongoing...

Exhibition: Access Kafka at Jewish Museum of Berlin

One hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, the exhibition puts key aspects of his legacy – still relevant today – into dialogue with works of contemporary art. The exhibition asks how, in their works, Kafka and contemporary artists explore...
Exhibition: Grotesque  at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, October 5 – November 30, 2024

Exhibition: Grotesque at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, October 5 – November 30, 2024

Exhibition: Bloodchild. Scenes from a Symbiosis at Fondazione Spazio Vitale

Exhibition: Bloodchild. Scenes from a Symbiosis at Fondazione Spazio Vitale

OnSaturday, October 5, one year after the launch ofFondazione Spazio Vitale, the exhibitionBloodchild.Scenes from a Symbiosisopens to the public. The third project curated byDomenico Quarantain the ...
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 at Mudam

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 at Mudam

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 surveys the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists who ...
Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives Exhibition at Mills College Art Museum

Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives Exhibition at Mills College Art Museum

Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives surveys the myriad ways artists represent and reflect our local communities. The exhibition includes both contemporary and historical works from Mills ...
Gray Area Festival 10 – Keynote speaker with Tanya Zimbardo

Gray Area Festival 10 – Keynote speaker with Tanya Zimbardo

Over the past 10 years, technological progress has inarguably transformed our society. Artificial intelligence, decentralized protocols, and quantum computing are just a few of the sea changes radically ...
Key Operators – Weaving and Coding As Languages of Feminist Historiography  at Kunstverein München

Key Operators – Weaving and Coding As Languages of Feminist Historiography at Kunstverein München

The exhibition Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography and its accompanying program of events focus on the links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and ...
Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty at UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art

Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty at UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art

In partnership with the 2024 Getty PST ART initiative, the UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology is proud to present Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty. The exhibition will feature ...
25 Essential AI Artworks: Agent Ruby

25 Essential AI Artworks: Agent Ruby

“If Ruby gets confused, feel free to tell her.” So read the instructions for Agent Ruby, an online piece that can converse with users. In a chat window, visitors submit their questions to Ruby, who ...