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...culture, Garma, before picking up the brush just six years ago. What her father told her came spilling out in a painted universe of stars, gan'yumirri garak, and from next month her work will help guide international audiences through a new era of Aboriginal art at the Mus?e du quai Branly in Paris. Across 250 sq m of ceiling, her painted mural will transform a curatorial library into an Arnhem Land night, luminous with a different kind of knowledge. "The stars tell stories to Yolngu people," she says...
...Calls for an inquiry come at a time when Aboriginal art is, ironically, on the crest of a wave. When the Mus?e du quai Branly opens next month, a dazzling Aboriginal showcase will bring unprecedented attention to this diverse and dynamic art form. It will also highlight an amazing story of cultural survival, with traditional lifestyles often being maintained on the earnings from art production. "Aboriginal art has been the one shining light that people have been able to refer to when they talk about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievements," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists...
...better to put paradox into concrete form than architect Nouvel? The light-sensitive fa?ade of his best-known building, the Institut du Monde Arabe, both veils and reveals the culture within, and for the MQB, it was his idea to hand over the administrative wing to the left of the museum's main entrance as a blank canvas for the Australian artists. While the building functions as a bookshop, curatorial offices and library, it was also Nouvel's idea for it to be viewed as a 3D artwork from the street. Every available window, wall, ceiling and column was seen...
...BUZZ Security was tighter than the Mona Lisa's smile at the Muse du Louvre in Paris, where location filming was allowed only after closing hours. Ongoing complaints by the Vatican and Opus Dei have only stoked the publicity fires, while a (much) smaller group supporting albino rights blanched at the villain's complexion. Sony has held no screenings for movie critics yet, which is not usually a good sign. But controversy sells, so maybe it won't need signs. -By Jeffrey Ressner...
Walking through the hushed corridor of the gallery space in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies Paul Stopforth stops before a piece of his, which is entitled ‘Monument.’ “This is in reference to one of the prisoners, who found a piece of high-tensile wire and, with no tools, created a beautiful blanket pin.” Stopforth pauses, and traces the unbroken line of the object with his hand. “It?...