Installation

May 19, 2025

Chiharu Shiota’s Newest Exhibition Highlights “Emptiness” by Filling the Void With Webs of Thread

Despite working predominantly with thread, Chiharu Shiota wants to be clear: her art should be read as paintings, not as cobwebs. For the Japanese artist, threads are brushstrokes, and her monumental installations are canvases, delicately painted and suspended in the air. “When I finally began using thread,” Shiota said in a recent interview with My Modern Met, “I felt like I found my own material. I could express my emotions.

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May 13, 2025

New York City’s 600-Foot-Long Subway Mural Recalls Hilma af Klint’s Astounding Mysticism

In 2019, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was honored with her first major solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, nearly eight decades after her death. The exhibition spurred a revived interest not only in af Klint’s abstractionism, but in the spirituality and mysticism that guided her practice. It was within this climate that Sharmistha Ray and Dannielle Tegeder founded the feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost in 2020.

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May 2, 2025

Artist Transforms Humble Shipping Containers Into Monumental Gold Columns

Columns have long been symbols of strength, stability, and support. Playing on this theme, Spanish artist SpY created a new monument in the French city of Lille for the Fiesta Festival. But unlike typical columns, they are not carved from marble or granite but rather formed from shipping containers. These Golden Monoliths, which transform a main city street, therefore stand not only as symbols of strength, but also as commentary on industry.

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April 20, 2025

Moving Exhibition Ruminates on the Emotional Complexities of Disappearing Glaciers [Interview]

With the world's rising temperatures, more glaciers than ever are melting rapidly. This has caused communities to mourn the loss of what was and to try to prevent further devastation. Swiss-American artist Ohan Breiding has captured the complexities of this situation with an experimental documentary and photography series that ruminate on the imminent loss of the Rhône Glacier.

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