Jamaican born and a Harlem local, Ward is deeply absorbed in the potential of art and language—in meaning layered on thick via choice materials, discarded objects, symbols—and a considered exercise of semantics. Another of my favourite interviews, with artist Nari Ward for MUSEUM.
Read MoreDavid Haines’ earlier experimentation around the avant-garde end of art music eventually milked into other sensory research. “The thing about aroma and scent is that it’s quite difficult to figure out how to actually work with it.” On the dark magic of scent and sensory art with David Haines for MUSEUM.
Read MoreMany millions journey to the Denon Wing of the Louvre Palace each year to bear witness to La Gioconda, but there has only been one retrospective exhibition of Piero di Cosimo’s painting to date, held at the Schaeffer Galleries in New York in 1938. An homage to a more obscure Florentine, for MUSEUM.
Read MoreI first witnessed Sehgal’s work earlier this year, with no real sense of what I was about to encounter. A relatively inexplicit press document had listed Sehgal’s most recent artistic accolades – the Gold Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale and a nomination for the often-controversial British Turner Prize. On experiencing Sehgal's This is so contemporary for MUSEUM.
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