Sculptures Created in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s Bloch Lobby in Full View of Visitors

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will get a rare look at art while it’s being created as part of the exhibition Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids, April 29 – Aug. 28 in Bloch Lobby. A sculpture-making machine designed by artist Roxy Paine melts plastic polyethylene beads with pigments and periodically extrudes them, creating unique, bulbous-shaped sculptures. The completed sculptures will be displayed on pedestals for the duration of the exhibition, which is called Roxy Paine: Scumaks [...]

“A Vernacular of Violence”, a Group Exhibition at Invisible-Exports

NEW YORK, NY.- Invisible-Exports presents A Vernacular of Violence, a group exhibition of work by Eric Baudelaire, Rita Sobral Campos, Claire Fontaine, Lisa Kirk, Sylvère Lotringer, and Walid Raad. Pictures of violence wallpaper our lives, and yet they seem remote, aloof. Those images, demanding and harrowing, can seem nevertheless uniquely inaccessible in a visual culture that evangelizes the transformative power of the impulse to reinvent, recreate and in turn, demystify and deconstruct. The six artists gathered here, in an exhibition [...]