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USA_Los Angeles
Women Representation by Middle Asian Women Artists at LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents “Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond” through September 24. The exhibition centers on works from the institution’s collection, questioning typical representations of women in Islamic cultures.
Works by female artists born or living in Islamic cultures are on view, critically depicting traditional female iconography or documenting practices imposed on Muslim women’s lives.
Their work also tells the story of political developments, accelerating social change, and diasporic communities across a wide geographic area, from Africa to West and Central Asia.
USA_Chicago
Mona Hatoum’s Early Works in MCA Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) presents “Mona Hatoum: Early Works” through October 22. Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) is a Palestinian-born contemporary artist who has lived and worked in London, and the MCA first organized a solo exhibition of her work in the United States 25 years ago. The show features performance documentation and video works from the formative years of her career.
Using a combination of media, Hatoum is known for works reflecting on power and its use. The exhibition draws attention to Hatoum’s interests in the politics imposed on women’s bodies, the relationship between spectators and subjects, and connections among globally marginalized communities, and highlights the resonance of her early work to date in addressing these concerns in personal, global, and political contexts.
USA_New York
Artists’ Diagrams at Marlborough Gallery
Marlborough Gallery presents “Schema: World as Diagram” through August 15. The exhibition, proposed by Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Bause Rubinstein at the beginning of 2022, has been widely acclaimed by New York’s leading art press.
The curators focus on diagrams as a highly structured way of synthesizing visual information and suggest them as an alternative to the conventional dichotomy of abstract versus figurative paintings. The exhibition shows how artists have used diagrammatic forms, including maps, mandalas, isometrics, and symbols.
Diagrams proliferated rapidly in Western art in the early 20th century with Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Francis Picabia (1879-1953), and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) at the center of the movement. The show mainly shows 20th-century and contemporary paintings and drawings, but also features traditional Central Asian rugs, Hindu religious paintings, Jain cosmology diagrams, neon sculptures, and collages. 73 works by more than 50 artists are on display.
