The image depicts a large-scale street art installation at an intersection. The artwork features a stylized, swirling form reminiscent of marine life or water currents, rendered in shades of blue, white, and teal. The artwork appears to interact with…
Jason deCaires Taylor creates large-scale underwater sculpture parks that serve as artificial coral reefs. His sculptures, often figurative and made from pH-neutral materials, are submerged in carefully selected ocean locations. Over time, these…
David Wojnarowicz's "Untitled (Falling Buffaloes)" (1988-89) is a poignant black-and-white photograph featuring a horde of buffaloes plunging over a cliff. Created during the height of the AIDS crisis, the image serves as a powerful metaphor for the…
Glenn Ligon's "Stranger in the Village #1" (1990) is a neon artwork that directly quotes James Baldwin's powerful 1953 essay, "Stranger in the Village." The glowing white neon text spells out a key excerpt from Baldwin's reflections on being the…
This piece was meant to mimic Van Gogh's sunflowers but by using bacteria to make the flowers. This bacteria was collected from the artists's washroom.
"Vende Tela, Compra Terra" (Sell Painting, Buy Land) is the driving concept behind MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin), a collective of Indigenous artists from the Amazon region. It represents their approach to using contemporary art as a means…
This photo portrays hundreds and rocks lined up in a row with each row increasing in height off the ground. Bennett’s Vibrant Matter encourages us to consider the agency of nonhuman actors, such as, tissues, organisms, and synthetic materials, in…