Entries by Jen Dolen

Hotel Empire: The New York Crossing

January 17, 2020 in /by

In their performance piece Hotel Empire: The New York Crossing, Laurent Boijeot and Sébastien Renauld moved portable furniture and bedding—here set up in Times Square—about five blocks every day.

Perception

January 17, 2020 in /by

Perception, eL Seed’s massive Arabic calligraffiti mural in Cairo, is visible as a whole from only one place: a Coptic church in a cave on Mokottam Mountain. The artwork was intended to open a dialogue about the Zaraeeb, a little-known community of Coptic Christians who are master recyclers.

Wind Telephone

January 17, 2020 in /by

An unconnected rotary phone provides a place of solace to speak with lost loved ones | Itaru Sasaki, Ōtsuchi, Japan.

barrangal dyara (skin and bones)

January 17, 2020 in /by

In Sydney, Australia’s Garden Palace, Jonathan Jones’s installation barrangal dyara called attention to lost Aboriginal history with 15,000 white replicas of Aboriginal shields, a meadow of native kangaroo grass in the center, and a soundscape of youth speaking eight Aboriginal languages.