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Maurice Benayoun Occupies Wall Screens

NEW YORK – Enigmatic and in constant flux, human emotions are not easily grasped, let alone quantified. Yet, the French new-media artist Maurice Benayoun endeavors to do precisely that for the sake of opening new ways of thinking about the world. He tracks worldwide emotional trends and catapults them into the spotlight, juxtaposing real human feelings […]

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Emeric Lhuisset: Artist as Barometer?

Artists are known for their ability to grasp the currents of ideas, frustrations, and desires flowing through society. Art that reflects on these dominant thoughts and emotions helps the rest of us process what is going on around us and contribute to the public discourse. So then, might contemporary art sometimes provide political stakeholders and […]

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Base Commune

We all have closets VI Aisha Abid hussain, Pakistan, 2009; water color ink, collage, pencil and resin on acrylic (10 x 11.5”) Paris June 2011 Base Commune at the Alexis Renard gallery in Paris brings together the graceful artworks of four young graduates of the Lahore National College of Art, whose contemporary creations are rooted in traditional […]