Body parts, cute figures, gore, anthropomorphic sculptures and more appear within the 50 artworks of Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, an exhibition on view now through 27 August at NYC’s Museum of Arts and Design. The subversive exhibit—curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy—is a raunchy, funny, sprawling testament to clay’s power as a form of satire while highlighting a pivotal and often overlooked moment …
On 28 July, the same day former and controversial president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez was born, art series Festival of Gratitude launched with decadent birthday cakes for Vladimir Putin, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Chavez himself. The mystifying NFT project is the inaugural series from new art platform Artwrld and stems from artist and co-founder of the platform Walid Raad whose performances, installations and photography …
What begins as a romantic and oftentimes comedic story of love turns into a deeper examination of class, politics and cultural difference in Monica Ali’s Love Marriage. Bengali protagonist Yasmin Ghorami is happily engaged to white, upper-class Joe Sangster, but during the days leading up to the wedding the differences between their backgrounds, secrets and a mother with an Oedipus complex threaten their union. The …
