Shiva Ravishankar is set on a remarkable quest—showcasing the fleeting essence of memory through art, turning personal stories into a visual tapestry that speaks to all through the exhibition Visual Memories.
An exhibition at the Hammer Museum honours the resourcefulness of artists who are willing to draw on all kinds of material, bodily and not, to express their ideas in drawings and prints (21 December–6 April 2025).
RODNEY PIGGOTT, chair of Tobago CivilNET, believes relics and symbols of TT’s colonial past should be removed from public spaces.
It’s unsurprising that food, such a central part of the animal—and thus, human—experience, has been a recurring theme in art, whether in the tantalizingly rendered fruits in Pompeian murals and medieval morality tales disguised in paintings as feasting scenes or, more recently, in works like Salvador Dalí’s Retrospective Bust of a Woman or Kathleen Ryan’s beautifully grotesque sculptures of mold-covered fruit.
carlier | gebauer, Madrid presents an exhibition of works by Michel François, January 17 until February 22.
Guggenheim, New York City presents a show Collection in Focus | Faith Ringgold, May 09 until September 07.
His paintings and drawings detailed urbanites “carousing in queer postures,” that is: slouching, leaning, or draping arms around one another in the locker room; bending, spinning, and twisting legs in angles that look impossible to hold for long all the while lollygagging along New York City’s piers.