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post notes on art in a global context MoMA Regions See all regions Africa Asia Central & Eastern Europe Middle East The Americas Themes See all themes One Work, Many Voices A Global Museum New York Crossings Contemporary Crisis and Dissent Art and the Political: 1960s and 1970s Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks Abstraction Art and Gender About Search for Central & Eastern Europe | Art and Gender An Overlooked Mentor & Innovator: Marta Staņa This essay examines the practice of architecture and the roles assigned to female architects in Latvia in the 1950s to the early 1990s through the life and work of Latvian architect Marta Staņa. My initial encounter with Marta Staņa (1913–1972) and her work in architecture occurred in 2002 when, as a young architecture journalist, I… Ieva Zībārte Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent Ukrainian Museums in Wartime: Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Yuliya Vaganova in conversation with Jason Farago This conversation, which took place as a collaboration between the International Program and Research Programs at MoMA, featured presentations by the directors of two important art museums in Kyiv on the crises faced by their institutions since the Russian invasion in February 2022. The National Art and Culture Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal (Art Arsenal) is… Jason Farago , Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Yuliya Vaganova Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent Performative Gestures and Limits of Resistance in Armenian Contemporary Art (1987–2008), Part III The Fragile Body and the Damaged Subject: A Decade of Crisis and Resistance (1998–2008) If in the early to mid-1990s, performative actions in Armenia were, to a large extent, launched by situational or strategic collectives and groups as interventions—as correctives to institutional operations of the state and the artworld—and motivated by the desire to communicate… Angela Harutyunyan Subscribe to our newsletter Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Email * Email Sign up Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images These presentations and panel discussion at MoMA brought together four filmmakers and artists who work in expanded documentary modes, using existing footage, archival research, interviews, and scripted narratives to produce imaginative accounts of transnational struggles, solidarities, and interventions. Using moving images, some of these practitioners interrogate the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements of the mid-late 20th… Jerónimo Atehortúa , Jihan El Tahri , Naeem Mohaiemen , Mila Turajlić , Rattanamol Singh Johal and Stuart Comer Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent Performative Gestures and Limits of Resistance in Armenian Contemporary Art (1987–2008), Part II Performances of Politics in a Nation-State (1991­–98) Armenian performative practices and art actions” in the 1990s were characterized less by grand gestures of plentitude and excess and more by austere, minimal, and often barely visible acts engaging with the triviality… Angela Harutyunyan Central & Eastern Europe | Art and Gender Daina Dagnija: Nomadic Subjects and the Promise of Homemaking This essay by feminist scholar and art curator Jana Kukaine explores the work of Latvian artist Daina Dagnija, who lived in exile in the United States after fleeing the Soviet occupation in 1944. While threading questions of migration and exile; memory, loss and belonging; and womanhood and mothering, Dagnija’s practice remains grounded in Baltic history,… Jana Kukaine Africa | Art and the Political: 1960s and 1970s Beyond the Modern Architect: La Pyramide, African Labor, and Rinaldo Olivieri’s Lens in Abidjan In this essay, Guillermo S. Arsuaga presents a critical examination of architectural modernism through the lens of one of the most renowned examples of modern architecture in Africa: La Pyramide designed by Italian architect Rinaldo Olivieri in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). His meticulous study of Olivieri’s unique photographic record of the project, the focus… Guillermo S. Arsuaga Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent After Post-”: Performance at the End of History” In May 1988 unofficial artists from across the Soviet republics gathered in Narva, Estonia, for what would be one of the last Soviet art festivals and yet one of the first such events to celebrate experimental performance art.1Throughout this essay, I use the term unofficial artists” to refer to a generation of artists practicing experimental… Leah Feldman Asia | One Work, Many Voices Montien Boonma: The Shape of Hope Invocation of Montien Boonma (1953–2000) almost always arrives in the form of an elegy. Best known for meditative sculptural installations that incorporate herbal medicines and earthy fragrances, he was a rising star of the international biennial circuit before an untimely death from cancer at the age of forty-seven. For many curators and critics who came… Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent Performative Gestures and Limits of Resistance in Armenian Contemporary Art (1987–2008), Part I Series Introduction This series of three articles presents a selection of the performative practices in Armenian art in the late-Soviet and post-Soviet periods, practices that would herald the separation of nonofficial artists from the official Soviet cultural discourses and practices, and subsequently, in the 1990s, mark the institutionalization of nonofficial or semiofficial art as contemporary… Angela Harutyunyan Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent air cut into song 05: Variable Disharmony 5.0: The Fifth Position air cut into song was first installed in four parts at the seventh Singapore Biennale at the invitation of Nida Ghouse, one of the show’s four co-artistic directors. The artwork is part of an ongoing project that is less a comprehensive collection than a compilation of gaps.” This fifth entry, composed… Moad Musbahi Africa | Art and Gender Catherine Gombe’s Youth (1965) and Printmaking at Makerere University in the Independence Era In the etching Youth (1965; fig. 1), a contemplative figure sits atop a globe, head resting on a knee, legs twisted together, arms tucked protectively into the body. The figure’s head, which is turned inward, counterposes the frontal, downcast face in the lower left foreground. It is this face that the etching’s maker, Ugandan artist… Kate Cowcher Posts navigation Show More Articles post notes on art in a global context post is The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. 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