A second and very different piece from the Brooklyn Museum for #CephalopodWeek:
Jesse Krimes (b. 1982)
Blackwater, 2021
Assorted textiles
Brooklyn Museum
“To counter the dehumanizing isolation of incarceration, Jesse Krimes works collaboratively with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals to create artworks out of old clothing and textiles that evoke memories of home. The artist developed his own practice while serving a six-year prison sentence. In this work, Krimes regards the tentacled animal as "a panoptic state of surveillance" and alludes to the eugenic and white supremacist ideas embedded in American zoology. The title, Blackwater, refers to a prison in Florida.”
A Preview of the Kanazawa Film Festival 2023 in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art (September 18-20)
The Kanazawa Film Festival 2023 will take place this year from September 08th to the 10th at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Theatre 21. This preview is dedicated to the Up and Coming New Film Directors programme section.
In this section, there are 10 films which were selected from 153 submissions. Directors will be present for stage greetings and there will be a Grand Prix,…
Cloister of Centre del Carme, a public modern art museum and cultural centre in València (Valencian Country).
The building was originally built as a convent in the 14th century, and the cloister is an addition from the Renaissance. It was used as a monastery until 1839. Since then, it has been the seat of different art museums, and nowadays it’s a contemporary art museum and community cultural centre.
The cloister is an “expanded library”: a public space for everyone to use and where everyone can propose new activities to do. It offers books and a place to meet, but doesn’t require silence. It aims to be a testing ground for what a library can be in the 21st century.
Photo by Nacho Rodríguez for Cerveza Turia and Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Paula Nicho Cúmez (Mayan-Guatemalan b. 1955), Mi Segunda Piel (My Second Skin), 2004. Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 58.8 cm. (Source: National Museum of the American Indian)