BRUCE NAUMAN - DISAPPEARING ACTS + MORE at MoMA PS1
New York’s Museum of Modern Art is known globally, and might be more so familiar to readers due to their recent collaborative exhibition hosted by Melbourne’s NGV. Less well known, however, is their smaller sister gallery MoMa PS1. Up in the north of Brooklyn, travellers and art enthusiasts can catch the 7 local train to the magnificent space - an old, repurposed elementary school from the 70s - to view MoMa’s latest offerings in contemporary art.
Featuring one of James Turrell’s moving Skyspace pieces and a retrospective on multimedia artist Bruce Nauman’s body of work, old, eerie classrooms come alive with neons and lucid video worlds that entrance the viewer.
MoMA PS1
ADULTS $25, STUDENTS $14
ENDS FEB 25 2019
12.00PM - 6.00PM THURS - MON
BENETTON - I SEE COLOURS EVERYWHERE
Only open for a few days, this temporary exhibition at Milano's La Triennale courtesy of United Colors of Benetton showcased a rainbow of art pieces of all mediums, shapes, sizes and forms.
LA TRIENNALE DI MILANO
FREE ADMISSION
10.30AM - 8.30PM TUES - SUN
LUCIO FONTANA - AMBIENTI/ENVIRONMENTS
We visited the opening night event for Ambienti/Environments, Pirelli HangarBicoccas's exhibition of reconstructed and iconic works by the late Lucio Fontana. Featuring immersive art experiences and installations that explore Fontana's studies in light, space and architecture, this exhibition is not one to be missed.
PIRELLI HANGARBICOCCA
FREE ADMISSION
ENDS FEB 25 2018
10AM - 10PM THURS - SUN
BROOK ANDREW - THE RIGHT TO OFFEND IS SACRED
Multidisciplinary artist Brook Andrew's The Right To Offend Is Sacred is an exploration of many of his new and majorly significant past sculptural works, responses to issues of racial identity politics in a voice that speaks for the marginalised many. His use of neon lights in particular draws strange and haunting parallels to what one would imagine a Vegas strip to be - the incongruity of this (both literally and figuratively) flashy medium matched with the sombreness of his message is both sharp and sobering; the resulting atmosphere is one that I recommend should be experienced alone. Take your time walking through this exhibition, past the newspaper clippings, old magazines and collages, the portraits and larger-than-life sculptures, and pay close attention to the stories being told before you.