After a delayed utility course of and an aborted preliminary fee, the US has ultimately appointed its artist for subsequent yr’s Venice Biennale: the Utah-born, Mexico-based artist Alma Allen. The Artwork Newspaper’s editor-in-chief within the Americas, Ben Sutton, talks Ben Luke by means of this complicated saga.
Kasra Jalilipour’s The Dance (2022), a part of the exhibition Deviant Ornaments © Kasra Jalilipour
On the Nationwide Museum of Norway in Oslo a brand new exhibition, Deviant Ornaments, focuses on the expression and illustration of queerness in Islamic artwork over greater than a millennium. Ben talks to the curator of the exhibition Noor Bhangu.
A element of Duane Linklater’s wintercount_215_kisepîsim (2022). Nationwide Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Bought 2023 © Duane Linklater. Photograph: Steven Cottingham. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
And this episode’s Work of the Week is the Cree artist Duane Linklater’s wintercount_215_kisepîsim (2022), a bit utilizing recycled canvas from teepees, and referencing the deaths of First Nations kids after they had been separated from their households within the Residential Faculty system in Canada. It’s a part of an exhibition referred to as Winter Depend: Embracing the Chilly, on the Nationwide Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and we discuss to 2 of the 4 curators of that present, Wahsontiio Cross and Jocelyn Piirainen, in regards to the work.
Deviant Ornaments, The Nationwide Museum of Artwork, Structure and Design, Oslo, till 15 March 2026Winter Depend: Embracing the Chilly, Nationwide Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, till 22 March 2026
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