Author: Iris
A nativity scene featuring a turban unveiled in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on December 7 by Bethlehem-based Palestinian artists Johny Andonia and Fatan Nastasi Mitwasi (Faten Nastas Mitwasi) Design. (©Vatican Media)On December 7, Pope Francis attended the opening ceremony. Bethlehem Christmas 2024, Nativity scene exhibition in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. One scene shows an olive wood sculpture of Mary, Jesus and Joseph by two Palestinian artists from Bethlehem, Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi. Mitwasi) design. Jesus is wrapped between the kneeling Mary and the standing Joseph. scarfa black and white scarf that symbolizes Palestinian heritage and…
As the year 2024 is almost over, we look back at the artists who have left a mark on the world of creativity. Among them, Bobbie Carlyle stands out with her ability to transform bronze into narratives of strength and perseverance. Her work, ranging from figurative expressions to wildlife and western themes, captures the raw essence of life’s highs and lows. The widely celebrated Self Made Man epitomizes her philosophy—an enduring depiction of carving one’s own path and purpose. Carlyle’s journey has been anything but ordinary. While earning a Fine Arts degree at Brigham Young University, she balanced the demands of raising…
For a decade, critic and educator Maurice Berger wrote a column for The New York Times. new york times It’s titled “Race Stories.” In writing about the photo, he wanted to teach visual literacy and then “racial literacy through visual literacy.” The column championed the work of photographers such as Jamel Shabazz, Zanele Muholi, Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Faustine and Gordon Parks, whose projects—whether social documentary or artistic exploration—left a deep impression on Berger. This month, Aperture has partnered with Aperture to publish a collection of nearly 70 essays. New York Times, The first in the Vision and Justice series…
Zaachariaha Fielding is perhaps best known as the voice of Electric Fields, the pop-tech duo who became the first group to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest. The duo performed their song One mikali (one blood), The lyrics are in English and Yankunytjatjara (an Australian Aboriginal language).Now Fielding will also have his first gallery show. Albertz Benda has just opened the first solo exhibition of the Aṉangu artist and singer in a new space next door to the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. This solo exhibition will be on view until February 1, 2025, and features eight landscape paintings.…
A series by photographer and professor Matthew Troyer explores the intersection of gaming and militarization in American culture. Troyer lives in North Carolina and is a former U.S. Marine Corps combat photographer. Playing War focuses on airsoft games, specifically at Rockingham Airsoft and Tactical Support (RATS) in Reedsville, NC. The facility allows civilians, who typically have no military background, to don combat gear, wield replica weapons and simulate war in an abandoned elementary school. A former place of learning turned into a battlefield illustrates the troubling trajectory that Troyer’s project faces: “These images explore how the aesthetics of war permeate…
Notre Dame Cathedral reopened on Saturday, December 7, for the first time since flames destroyed part of the building’s roof and spire in April 2019.World leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron, Catholic clergy and donors to the 700 million euro ($739.2 million) restoration project , attended the cathedral’s reopening ceremony with 2,000 guests, officiated by Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich. During Saturday night’s service, clergy ceremoniously knocked on the cathedral’s doors, and attendees responded by reciting hymns and then awakening the 8,000-piece organ that had been dismantled and restored after the fire. A view of Notre…
In 1964, Jacques Demy did something extraordinary for the French New Wave – he made a romantic film musical. The director, who was just 33 at the time, added a twist: all dialogue, no matter how mediocre, would be sung by actors with pleasant but amateurish-sounding voices. Named after the umbrella shop where the film’s heroine Genevieve (played by Catherine Deneuve) and her mother (played by Anne Vernon) work, this Umbrellas in Cherbourg The global hit catapulted Deneuve to international stardom and gave Demy a popular reputation he would never experience again before his untimely death from AIDS-related illness in…
A lattice of contemporary design elements interweaves with features inspired by the building’s 154-year history to form Mexican architect Frida Escobedo’s vision for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new home for modern and contemporary art, such as Shown in the design renderings released today, December 10th. After being postponed in 2017, the five-story Tang Wing, now scheduled to open in 2030, will remain within the footprint of the existing museum building while expanding the Met’s exhibition space by nearly 50%, bringing the total area to 126,000 sq.m. The new wing is named for Oscar L. Tang and HM Agnes Hsu-Tang,…
Over the weekend, a group of anonymous activists staged a guerrilla action at New York’s Noguchi Museum to protest the institution’s recent ban on hijabs and the firing of related employees, posting mock text on the walls mocking the controversial policy.In a press release shared with allergic The group said it intended to use the museum’s space to directly criticize the Arab and Palestinian headscarf ban imposed last September, which the museum said was an “update” to its dress code. Rather than rewriting wall text for the exhibited work by Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, the group developed new text for…
Every year I neglect to get my holiday shopping done early. Before I knew it, I was on the verge of collapse at the Bryant Park Holiday Market, waiting in a sea of tourists for overpriced scarves and day-old apple cider donuts. This is a Christmas tradition.But last weekend, I found a cure for my gift-related procrastination at Brooklyn’s cavernous Pioneer Works: Press Game Expo, a two-day gathering for independent publishers. Now in its fifth year, the event brings a wealth of remedies to the mind-numbing business holiday season in the form of zines, books and stickers — thoughts, ideas…