Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation For three months from 1 June to 1 September 2019, Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong showcases MURAKAMI vs MURAKAMI, a major survey exhibition of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Curated by Tobias Berger, head of art at Tai Kwun, and Gunnar B Kvaran, director of Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the exhibition spans the three floors of Tai Kwun's...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
Related Video & Audio Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont — Jeremy Lewison in conversation with Angela Lampe Xavier Hufkens : 13 December 2018 Jeremy Lewison, adviser to the Estate of Alice Neel, talks with Angela Lampe, curator of Modern Art at Centre Pompidou, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont' (26 October—15 December 2018).
Related Video & Audio TAL R : Louisiana Channel : 17 December 2017 Shortly before he turned fifty, we had the unique pleasure of spending six months with Danish artist Tal R, while he was in the process of making his grand series of nine enormous railcar-paintings, 'Habakuk'. Watch the intimate and biographical film.A film by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc-Christoph WagnerCamera: Klaus ElmerAdditional footage:...
Related Video & Audio INTERVIEW Academy of Tal R Elephant : 14 November 2017 Academy of Tal R is the Israeli-born artist's largest exhibition to date, recently moving from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Tal R is also currently showing Sexshops at Victoria Miro in London. Here, the decidedly anti-academic artist discusses moving sculptures, keyholes and broken...
Related Video & Audio Tal R: Painting is like Free Falling Louisiana Channel : 27 March 2017 'Art is the only place I can bear disappointment,' says Danish artist Tal R, who paints sex shops and dreams of making a clay pigeon fly. Meet one of Denmark's leading painters in this engaging and humorous interview on the nature of art.Tal R was interviewed by Martin Krasnik at the Art Alive festival at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark,...
Related Video & Audio Tal R on Daniel Richter, Daniel Richter on Tal R Louisiana Channel : 21 January 2013 'We don't get inspired by each other, we steal from each other'. See what happens when you put two artists, who are also friends, together and get them to comment on each other's paintings.Music by: Mulatu Astatke.Produced by: Martin Kogi and Christian LundCopyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
