At his first solo show in New York, artist Mark Boulos connects the Niger oil war and high finance:
A war abroad you may not have heard of, and a financial crisis at home you know only too well, are connected.
Bio: Lecia is an intern at Capital New York, finishing her final year at NYU as a double major in Journalism and Studio Art.
On one screen is footage Boulos shot in a poor fishing village on the banks of the Niger River of the guerrilla group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which is fighting to wrest back the Delta soil from the exploitation of large multinational oil corporations. On the other screen are the shouting crowds of traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on September 16, 2008, the first day of the financial crisis that began that year. More
Posted on April 3rd, 2012 2:07pm
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011), is among ten of BBC documentarian Adam Curtis’ films (made from 1989 to 2011) on view now at e-flux in their show The Desperate Edge of Now. As he narrates tales of failed financial markets, cybernetic utopias, or Randian heroes, the rapid-fire imagery somehow comes to make sense as a complicated, chaotic whole. More
Posted on March 8th, 2012 1:36pm
The Gran Fury: Read My Lips exhibition is constructed more as a time capsule than a living exhibition. Billed as “the first comprehensive survey documenting the important AIDS activist art collective’s work from 1987-1995,” the show feels more like an informational resource than a typical gallery exhibition. That said, the work is as powerful as it’s ever been. More
Posted on February 28th, 2012 3:30pm
HIDE/SEEK is a first—a far-ranging look at depictions of homosexuality and unconventional notions of gender in American portraiture. It features more than one hundred works spanning from the late 19th century to the 1980s, and seeks not to offend but rather to explore—and what exploration it offers is surprisingly moving. More
Posted on February 10th, 2012 6:06pm
