In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA, 6 May–9 September 2018), explores 'the continuous and inescapable presence of the past in Iranian society.' Curated by Linda Komaroff, curator of Islamic art and head of LACMA's Art of the Middle East department, the...

Laure Prouvost's most recent exhibition in New York at Lisson Gallery (9 March–14 April 2018) was a gesamtkunstwerk of sorts. The show spread through the entire 10th Avenue gallery space and included two years of artistic production: installation, sculpture, painting, textile, sound and moving image. Uncle's Travel Agency Franchise, Deep Travel...

On my last evening in Dakar, I made my way to Yarakh, a neighbourhood on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital, where I was guided down a narrow sandy path toward a beach where a group of actors, artists, and locals were taking part in or attending the performance Xeex Bi Du Jeex (a luta continua). The play was written collaboratively in 2018...

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Latest Ocula Photolog Art Basel 2018 15 June 2018 At this year's Art Basel, 290 premier galleries, drawn from 35 countries across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa presented modern and contemporary works by around 4,000 artists. View Photolog

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Latest Ocula Report Iranian Art at LACMA: In the Fields of Empty Days By PERWANA NAZIF | June 2018 'In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art' showcases Iranian art in the past and present tenses so that both might encounter one another. Read More

Kaveh Golestan, The Shah Left (1979). Printed 2015, gelatin silver print. 61 x 76 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the Estate of Kaveh Golestan. Courtesy © Estate of Kaveh Golestan. Digital image: © Museum Associates/LACMA.

Ocula Conversation Gabi Ngcobo ‘Thinking and working between disciplines is my way of being in the world, and the way I become part of the world. I studied art against many odds; many of which had to do with the political atmosphere I was born in and grew up under.’ Read More By MOHAMMAD SALEMY

Gabi Ngcobo. Photo: Masimba Sasa.

Ocula Conversation Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo ‘Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Guarene and Turin, together with the Madrid Fundación, are creating a new constellation; mapping out a new geography that concretely embodies an idea of Europe based on reciprocity—between places, communities, fields of knowledge and cultures.’ Read More By STEPHANIE BAILEY

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Photo: Stefano Sciuto.

Ocula Report Dak’Art Biennale 2018: The Red Hour By FEDERICA BUETI | June 2018 Established in 1990 as the most important art event in Africa, Dak’Art is dedicated to highlighting and expanding the notion of what constitutes the African identity through culture and the arts. Read More

Satch Hoyt, Kush Yard Totem (2018). Eight totems and sound-scape. Installation view: Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog—The Dog Done Gone Deaf curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, with co-curators Kamila Metwaly and Marie Hélène Perreira as part of Dak'Art Biennale: The Red Hour, Dakar (3 May–2 June 2018). Courtesy the artist.

Ocula Report SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement at the 21st Biennale of Sydney By TESS MAUNDER | May 2018 Instead of the 'East' versus 'West' binary, Kataoka interrogates multiple histories that dance together. Read More

Ai Weiwei, Crystal Ball (2017). Crystal, life jackets. 100 x 100 x 100 cm. Installation view: SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, 21^st Biennale of Sydney, Artspace Sydney (16 March–11 June 2018). Courtesy the artists and the Biennale of Sydney. Photo: silversalt photography.

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Ocula Report Viewpoint: Arthur Jafa at Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin By FEDERICA BUETI | May 2018 Arthur Jafa's work tackles the complexity of African-American cultural identity defined by an existential paradox that places the Black subject 'in essential intimacy with death'. Read More

Arthur Jafa, Apex (2013) (Still). Video, colour, sound. 8 min 22 sec. Installation view: Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (11 February–25 November 2018). Courtesy Julia Stoschek Foundation. Photo: Simon Vogel.

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